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Being In Front Of A Camera, In A Nice Dress, Getting All Dressed Up Is Extreme. There's A Lot Of Other Extreme Situations, You Know, Just Getting Out Of Bed Sometimes Is Extreme - But I Do It. Just Got To Do It, Just Got To Get Up. Put Your Sweatpants On, Brush Off The Dog Hair And Just Get Out Of The House!

-Sandra Bullock

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Being In Front Of A Camera, In A Nice Dress, Getting All Dressed Up Is Extreme. There's A Lot Of Other Extreme Situations, You Know, Just Getting Out Of Bed Sometimes Is Extreme - But I Do It. Just Got To Do It, Just Got To Get Up. Put Your Sweatpants On, Brush Off The Dog Hair And Just Get Out Of The House!

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If You Can't Pronounce It, You Probably Shouldn't Be Putting It In Your Body Or In Your Environment.

I Just Want People To Admit That There's No One Way To Live Your Life.

It's Nice We Work In A Place Where You're Allowed To Keep Coming Back To Have New Experiences Together.

New Experiences

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Ireland And The Irish

I Realised That Conforming Didn't Accomplish Anything. Do Your Own Thing. As Long As You Learn That, You're Cool.

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Acquiring Knowledge

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I Will Do Comedy Until The Day I Die: Inappropriate Comedy, Funny Comedy, Gender-bending, Twisting Comedy, Whatever Comedy Is Out There.

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No One Has Proof That I Know Of, That A Higher Power Exists, Yet A Major Portion Of The World Believes In It And Relies On It In Faith In Trust, In What That Is. Where Is The Science In That? And Yet You Have Incredible Belief In That.

I Now Have Faith In Those Who Say They Represent A Faith. Whereas Before I Was Like, 'do Not Give Me A Lecture On How To Live My Life When I Know I'm A Pretty Decent Human Being. I Might Not Go To Church Every Day, But I Know I Do The Right Thing Or Try To. You're Going To Church And You're Still Sleeping Around On Your Wife And Spending Everyone's Money. How Are You Better Than I Am?' So I've Finally Met People That Walk The Walk And It's Made Me Happy, Really Happy.

How Often In Life Are You Going To Find Your Mate And That Mate Happens To Be Your Same Exact Age And Happens To Have Had The Same Life Experiences To Match Where You Are In Our Life So You Guys Can Meet Perfectly And Give Society What It Wants? It Just Doesn't Happen That Way. Some People Evolve At 24, Some People Are 60 And Are Still Evolving. So Why Are We Stopping These Great Connections Based On Age, Or Race Or Colour Or Whatever, Gender, Whatever? You Meet Who You Meet And You Connect Because Of Your Life Experience.

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Falling In Love-you Should Go With It, Regardless Of Whether Or Not Your Heart Gets Smashed. You'll Be A Better Person.

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My Goal Now Is To Remember Every Place I've Been, Only Do Things I Love, And Not Say Yes When I Don't Mean It.

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Having To Be Nice All The Time Is Exhausting And Boring, But To Play Someone Who Just Has That Under Layer Of Unhappiness, You Know That It Comes From Someplace.

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Whoever Established The High Road, And How High It Should Be, Should Be Fired.

Taking The High Road

Chocolate Is The Greatest Gift To Women Ever Created.

I Watched A Documentary About Freedom Riders. One Young Woman Told Her Parents, 'i'm Going To Leave College To Ride And Represent The Future.' I Thought, 'who Would Do That Now?' Who Would Do That For My Son?"

I'm Not Saying, "i Don't Condone Plastic Surgery." But If You Do It, Then Do It Well, Make Sure You Come Out Looking Like Yourself. You're Comfortable Being Put Under A Knife And Being Disemboweled? Great!

Plastic Surgery

If I Die Tomorrow, Will I Have Gotten Everything In The World I've Ever Wanted? No. But I Will Have Gotten Everything That's Made Me Happiest.

No One Understands The Shift In Priorities About Having A Child In Your Life... Until You Have A Child In Your Life.

As Connected As We Are With Technology, It's Also Removed Us From Having To Have Human Connection, Made It More Convenient To Not Be Intimate.

Human Connection

Everyone Told Me To Pass On Speed Because It Was A 'bus Movie.'

I Love My Comedy Too Much To Bastardize It With Bad Romantic Comedy.

I Spent So Many Summers And New Years And Fun Times In New Orleans. It Was Always A Place Where I Felt I Could Go And Actually Let Go And Enjoy The Spirit Of Something.

I Always Said If It Gets To A Point Where I Really Want A Child, I Would Adopt; Kids Are Amazing, So I'm Getting The Selfish Stuff Out Of My System So When I Have Them I Can Say, 'go, Run. I Have Plenty Of Money, Go Play.'

My Parents Were Opera Singers And Voice Teachers, So Growing Up, I Admired Musicians And Dancers.

Music, Somehow, Breaks Through, To Everybody.

Ironing Is Comfort. It's Control. I'm A Nutty Person Who Likes To Make Sure Everything Is In Its Place.

I'm Very Musically Inclined. My Parents Were Opera Singers. As A Young Child, I Could Hear Operas And I Knew If They Were Sad, Or If They Reminded Me Of Something, Or They Brought Back A Memory.

I'm Just Having Fun. And Giving A Sort Of Second Shot At Childhood And Life - And I Need To Be Present To Do It.

I Don't Need Any More Stories. I Have Enough Stories. I Need A Life.

Meaning Of Life

It's Such A Joy To Be Able To Play Someone Who Is Angry. It's A Joy And A Relief. Having To Be Nice All The Time Is Exhausting And Boring.

I Did Love That Scene In The Movie [ "our Brand Is Crisis"] Because It's Like "the Wizard Of Oz." You See The Backstage Action Of Politics. You Have Access To See Behind The Curtain. You See How It's All One Big Advertisement.

Everything In Large Doses Is Gonna Kill You. Even Happiness.

Not Everything Has To Be Immediate.

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People Order Clothes Out Of A Catalogue, Put It On An Actor And Everything Is Generic.

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