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“Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.”
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“I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”
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“I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.”
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“Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.”
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“When you get older, you realize it's a lot less about your place in the world but your place in you. It's not how everyone views you, but how you view yourself.”
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“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”
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“I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people.”
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“I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.”
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“They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?”
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“Stop the rhetoric that a woman is crazy or difficult. Gossip well. If a man says a woman is crazy or difficult, ask him, ‘What bad thing did you do to her?’ That’s a code word. He is trying to discredit her reputation.”
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“Three times a day I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain or to kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.”
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“A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday — euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with. Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews. I understood very quickly, even as a 13-year-old, that if I were to express myself sexually I would feel unsafe and that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort.”
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“A countdown was started on my local radio show to my 18th birthday — euphemistically the date that I would be legal to sleep with,” she said. “Movie reviewers talked about my budding breasts in reviews. I understood very quickly, even as a 13-year-old, that if I were to express myself sexually I would feel unsafe and that men would feel entitled to discuss and objectify my body to my great discomfort.”
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