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"When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need."
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"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."
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"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
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"You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely."
"I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together."
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"There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value."
"I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box."
"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
"We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?"
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."
"Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up."
"You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever."
"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."
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