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Quotes by Actress

"One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people."

"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."

"I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve."

"Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy."

"Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline."

"I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message."


"I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now."
Now,

"My bedspread isn't washable. Since my bedding has to be washed every day, I'll have to throw it out."
Day,

"I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us."

"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."

"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."

"I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was."

"Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun."

"As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't."

"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."

"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."

"She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before."

"In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way."

"I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had."

"When I watched Ellen come out in '97, my jaw was on the floor. I thought, There are some people who break the doors down, hold them open, and some people who walk right through."


"Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that."

"What makes you different is what makes you stronger. You are a masterpiece uniquely designed by God. You can have tremendous victories, love, and abundance."

"I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed."

"Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless."

"Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up."

"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful."
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