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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

Winona Ryder

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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Attachment Goodness. Friendship Industry Live Movie Try Yourself
One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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Act Energy Movie Oneself
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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Doubt Myself Regard Scare School Time
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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Ambition Dirty Famous Kind Mess Myself People Remember Woman Word
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
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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Desire Myself Publish Writing
I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn’t go out.
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Book Home Myself Reading Remember Skin Start Stay
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
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’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 don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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Information Internet Yourself
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’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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Flaw Learning Myself Self Love
The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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Actor People Soul Thinking Yourself
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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Big Children Kind Life Myself Remember School Stardom
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 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 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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Dreams Growth Love Myself Play Woman Young
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
A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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Different Fashion Myself Woman
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
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’d always find the positive in someone.
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Myself One Liner Perspective Positive
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
You do a movie if it’s good and if you want to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you’re gonna say them. You can’t strategize.
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Expensive Goodness Movie Price Word Yourself
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
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

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