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"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."
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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."
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Personal Development
"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States."
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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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"Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them."
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"People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?"
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"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties."
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"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."
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"I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened."
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"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
Writing
"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
Age
"I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?"
Work
"I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown."
Time
"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
Writing
"I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own."
Writing
"While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put."
Dream
"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."
People
"I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at."
Earth
"For me, writing something down was the only road out."
Road
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