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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.

Winona Ryder

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.
WINONA RYDER

Deep Level Live Money Myself Personal Reality Worry
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
I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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Information Internet Yourself
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 was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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Beautiful Believe Fiction Myself Religious
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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.
WINONA RYDER

Care Goodness Myself Role Story
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 want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
WINONA RYDER

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 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’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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Flaw Learning Myself Self Love
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
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Believe Death Father Myself Religion
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 was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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Depression Myself Terrible
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’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’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
I’d always find the positive in someone.
WINONA RYDER

Myself One Liner Perspective Positive
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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Frustration Personal Print Reading Wrong 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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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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