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When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

Winona Ryder

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.
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Actor Move Myself Occupation Shallow Shame Time
In America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.
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Believe Dangerous Environment Existence Myself
I’m the type who’d rather not work than work on something I’m not into. I’ve done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
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Couple Feeling Movie Myself Performance See Time Type Work
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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Fantasy Job Light Love Movie Myself Thinking Work
It’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
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Emotion Kind Love Ourselves Sad Society Story
It’s part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what’s been printed about me.
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Celebrity Interest Life Myself Process Wild
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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Business Dangerous Important Interest Life Movie Thinking Yourself
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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Desire Myself Publish Writing
Society makes suicide so romantic.
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Fake Movie Romantic Society Suicide
When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
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Acceptance Answer Confusion Feeling Human Normal Perfection Yourself
Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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Career Greatness Myself Opportunity Success
It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
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Actor Celebrity Crowd Disappear Enjoyment Notice People
I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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Growth Myself Start
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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Bad Experience Goodness Person Regret Thinking Weird
The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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Actor People Soul Thinking Yourself
Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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Break Crazy Darkness Myself Secret Yourself

When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

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When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

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