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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.

Winona Ryder

You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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Break Confusion Cure Enough Feeling Money Pay Yourself
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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Old People Thinking Worry Yourself
I’ve loved making movies. I feel like I’ve been so lucky because I’ve gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them – like ‘Heathers.’
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Feeling Love Movie Myself Regard
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
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
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
I’ve read the Bible. I think the Bible’s a great book, but it’s a novel. It’s beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.
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Book Greatness Myself Novel Reading Religious Way Writing Wrong
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
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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Attention Feeling Goodness Myself Pay Scare Try
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’m quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I’ve been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
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Camera Children Comfortable Movie Myself Quite
One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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Act Energy Movie Oneself
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
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Believe Death Father Myself Religion
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
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.
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Break Up Hard Person Picture Problem Tough
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 don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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Lecture Myself People
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 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
I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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Body Drugs Myself
Society makes suicide so romantic.
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Fake Movie Romantic Society Suicide
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 was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
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Act Inspirational Myself People Writing
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
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 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

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