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"I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative."
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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
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"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."

"I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am."

"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."

"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."

"I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it."

"I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese."

"Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on."

"We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people."
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