Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.
WINONA RYDERI’d always find the positive in someone.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.
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I feel my best when I’m happy.
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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.
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You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.
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I’d always find the positive in someone.
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I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I’d much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
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Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.
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I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.
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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It’s still in the back of my mind.
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I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.
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I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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I try to just pay attention to what I’m feeling. If something is scary to me, then that’s sometimes a good sign – although, sometimes it’s not.
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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
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I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.
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