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Jill Clayburgh

"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."

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"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."

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"In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame."

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"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."

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