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"I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech."
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"All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person."

"Age is just reality we create for ourselves."

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

"Do not allow your resentment towards negative in this era to blind you into spiting yourself. We were made unique and should celebrate each other's life and the uniqueness that defines us."

"A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it."

"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."

"I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it's more important to learn to work with what you've got, under the circumstances you've been given, than wishing for different ones."

"What's done, is done."

"It's about religious acceptance, it's no longer about religious tolerance."
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"The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again."

"With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie."

"My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."

"My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next."

"Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own."

"I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are."

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

"What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us."
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