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"I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself."
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"I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me."
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"The film Punch - Drunk Love is how you see the world when you're in love. You don't see somebody's psychological baggage necessarily, you see the person walking out of the light."
Love
"I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself."
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"When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice."
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"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."
People
"During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home."
Home
"It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly."
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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."
Actor
"My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world."
Film
"My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger."
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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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