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I Always Tried, In The Books I Wrote, To Make It Clear: Thin Is Not The Goal. But I Was Thin. So No Matter What I Said, The Subliminal Message Was, "you Have To Look A Certain Way." And I'm Not Happy About Playing Into That.

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Jane Fonda

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I Always Tried, In The Books I Wrote, To Make It Clear: Thin Is Not The Goal. But I Was Thin. So No Matter What I Said, The Subliminal Message Was, "you Have To Look A Certain Way." And I'm Not Happy About Playing Into That.

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Wounds And Scars

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I Never Wanted To Be An Actor. My Dad Was An Actor, And He Never Brought Joy Home, So I Didn't View It As Something That I Would Want To Do. But I Got Fired As A Secretary, And Then I Started Studying, I Started Doing It Just To Earn Money. And It Took Me A Long Time To Learn To Love It. And What I Loved Was Telling A Story. I Tried To Avoid Making Plays Or Films That Weren't Telling A Story That I Felt Was Important. I Discovered In The Process That It Makes You More Empathic Because You Have To Enter Someone Else's Reality And Learn To See Through Many Other People's Eyes.

Eat Only When You Are Hungry-not Because It Is One O'clock Or Seven O'clock Or Whatever.

I've Worked Really, Really Hard On Myself To Not Be Judgmental.

Perfection Is A Toxic Desire. We Are Not Supposed To Be Perfect. The Challenge Is Not To Be Perfect, It's To Be Whole.

I Don't Want To Die Without Knowing Who I Am.

You Must Decrease The Amount Of Food You Eat And Increase The Amount Of Exercise You Get. That Is All There Is To It.

When You Can't Remember Why You're Hurt, That's When You're Healed. When You Have To Work Real Hard To Re-create The Pain, And You Can't Quite Get There, That's When You're Better.

How Would You Like To Have A Father Who Keeps Getting Younger Looking Every Year? Do You Realize What That Can Do To A Woman?

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