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"I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text."
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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
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"We are capable of greatness."
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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."
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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."
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"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"
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"We are all capable of being great dreamers."
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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"You have divine abilities for a great mission."
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"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."
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"I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text."
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"I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding."
Idea

"I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things."
Funny

"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it."
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"Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex."
Movies

"There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me."
Woman

"I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other."
People

"I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really."
Religion

"You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you."
Work

"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."
Being
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