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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

I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
WINONA RYDER

Best Business Important Life Movie Myself Personal
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
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
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Alone Moments Myself People Reading Value Weird
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 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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Dangerous Important Interest Life Movie Thinking Yourself
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
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
You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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Bad Depression Goodness 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
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’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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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Believe Death Father Myself Religion
I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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Flaw Learning Myself Self Love
Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
WINONA RYDER

Break Crazy Darkness Myself Secret Yourself
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
WINONA RYDER

Desire Myself Publish Writing
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.
WINONA RYDER

Big Children Kind Life Myself Remember School Stardom

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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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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