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Being This Side Of 40 Feels Like What I Should Have Felt Being This Side Of 25: In My Body, In My Heart, Happy With My Life, And Ok With Whatever Bumps In The Road Present Themselves.

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Being This Side Of 40 Feels Like What I Should Have Felt Being This Side Of 25: In My Body, In My Heart, Happy With My Life, And Ok With Whatever Bumps In The Road Present Themselves.

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It Gets So Boring You Know Just To Do The Same Thing Over And Over Again.

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There's Times When You See People Climbing And Getting Success And You Start To See, Oh, They're Starting To Really Change. So I Always Just Make The Effort To Be As Humble And Grateful As Possible.

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I Actually Will Always Stop And Watch [friends Episodes], Not For The Whole Thing, But Usually Because I've Forgotten A Lot Of The Episodes. It's Sort Of Fun For A Second, I'm Like, What's This One? And Sometimes It Comes Back To Me. I Always Know What Year It Was By What Length My Hair Was Or What Color.

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There Is Nothing You Can Control About Love.

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You Hit The Wall Almost Right When You Get Up To The Top. If There's A Female Writer Being Suggested To Do A Rewrite On A Script, It's Always The Big Boys Going, "mm, Let's Go With [a Man]..."

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