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In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I’m sayin’?

Julia Stiles

I’m going to Columbia University but I’m trying to keep that low-profile because I don’t want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.
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College People Trying
I think it’s really special to be a part of something that people are still watching or thinking about or interested in, or remember fondly many years later. I don’t think it’s annoying at all.
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People Thinking Years
The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.
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Emotional Pain Type
I pretty much grew up in public.
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Grew Much Public
I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.
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Innocent Ophelia Roles
I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don’t do anything that outlandish anyway.
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Knows Outlandish Thinking
I like analyzing human behavior. It’s complex. That’s what keeps me going.
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Analyzing Behavior Human
I did a run of a play over the summer in a really tiny theater in New York and that was rejuvenating for me. I directed a short series for Hulu called Paloma and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting.
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Country People Running Summer
In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.
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Careers Error Errors Trial
I’m not good at keeping secrets. If I’m entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I’m a good friend, but I don’t like having secrets, it makes me nervous.
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Friend Good Keeping Nervous Secrets
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn’t have actresses then.
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Character Females Thinking Writing
I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.
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Acting Important People
I’ve really turned a corner recently in terms of not taking work too seriously, so it is much easier for me to not take my work home.
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Easier Home Seriously Term
We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird
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Art Bird Cutting Funding Times
I remember seeing Janet McTeer in A Doll’s House. My grandmother took me and we had seats in the very back row, but her performance was so powerful – it was very accessible. I felt like I was much closer than I was.
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Grandmother House Performance Powerful
I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater – it reduces performance anxiety.
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Anxiety Forever Grateful

In my worst moments, I try to think about loving instead of hating. Creation versus destruction, know what I’m sayin’?

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