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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.

Winona Ryder

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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Father Love Myself Photograph
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
I’d always find the positive in someone.
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Myself One Liner Perspective Positive
I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
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Best Business Important Life Movie Myself Personal
I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, ’cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.
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Goodness Myself People Person Work
I often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that’s a lot of time to be doing something that you’re not absolutely invested in or in love with.
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Investment Life Movie Offering Old Short Yourself
As an actress, you want to try new things. You don’t want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.
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Actor Important Old Repeat Yourself
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
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Blame Forever Illegal Mom Need Prison Victim
Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
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Deep Level Live Money Myself Personal Reality Worry
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
You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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Feeling Sensitive Talk World Yourself
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
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
One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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Act Energy Movie Oneself
That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.
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Business Frustration Personal Print Reading Wrong Yourself
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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Book Favorite Love Myself Sound
I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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Lecture Myself People
I’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.
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Attachment Beautiful Movie Myself Replacement Romantic
As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don’t really care where it’s seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven’t done before.
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Care Goodness Myself Role Story
I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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Growth Myself Start
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
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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Age Break Depression Drama Engagement Remember Yourself
People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they – at least the ones that I know personally – have been waiting for something that doesn’t completely insult them.
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Insult Movie Myself People Personal Thinking
I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
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Fall Flaw Important Learning Life Myself Secret
I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.
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Friendship Love Myself Parents Thinking Togetherness Writing
The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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Actor People Soul Thinking Yourself
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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Important Life Normal Run Thinking Work Yourself

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