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"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
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"Janet Reno, during her confirmation hearings, said she would come down harder on porno, and lately she's talked about how violence on television has an effect on violence in the real world."

"The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours."

"My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City."

"All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way."

"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."

"Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case."

"It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough."
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"Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children."

"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."

"If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try."

"All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene."

"Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too."

"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."

"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference."

"Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done."

"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."
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