A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.

Winona Ryder

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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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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
A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It’s still in the back of my mind.
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Mindset Movie Myself Old Sad
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
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’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
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
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 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’d always find the positive in someone.
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Myself One Liner Perspective Positive
I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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Lecture Myself People
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
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
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Believe Death Father Myself Religion
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
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
You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
WINONA RYDER

Bad Depression Goodness Yourself

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