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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
It's amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.
You will learn more from your failures than your successes — so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you're never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow.
If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
Let's face it — no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.
Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama... well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.