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Sleep Is Critical To Me... At Least Eight Or Nine Hours A Night. I Start To Slow Down My Body And My Mind At Least 30 Minutes Before I Get Into Bed. I Don't Watch Any Disturbing Or Invigorating Tv At Night. I Also Get Energy From Meditation Practice And From Eating Healthy Fresh Food, Only One Cup Of Espresso In The Morning, And Not Drinking Too Much.

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Sleep Is Critical To Me... At Least Eight Or Nine Hours A Night. I Start To Slow Down My Body And My Mind At Least 30 Minutes Before I Get Into Bed. I Don't Watch Any Disturbing Or Invigorating Tv At Night. I Also Get Energy From Meditation Practice And From Eating Healthy Fresh Food, Only One Cup Of Espresso In The Morning, And Not Drinking Too Much.

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Men Fear That Becoming 'we' Will Erase His 'i.' For Women, Our 'we' Is Our Saving Grace Women's Relationships Are Like A Renewable Source Of Power.

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I Believe That We Have To Strive For A Transition To A Socialist Society ... All The Way To Communism. I Mean I Think We Should, Uh, I Think We Should All Study What The Word Means And I Believe That If Everyone Knew What The Word Meant We Would All Be On Our Knees Praying That We Would, As Soon As Possible, Be Able To Live Under, Uh, Within A Communist Structure.

You Think You're Being Broken But You're Really Being Broken Open...and That's Where The Healing Happens, In Those Broken Places...if You'll Allow It.

The Bravest Soldiers Aren't Unafraid, But They're The Ones Who Are Able To Harness Their Fear On Behalf Of Courage.

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Declare A Truce And Accept Food As A Life-giving Friend.

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In This Age Of Remote-controlled Pushbutton War, We Must All Try Very, Very Hard To Remain Human Beings.

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

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I Lived In France During The '60s. I Was There From The Early '60s Until 1970, So My View Of The '60s Is More Global. It Was A Time Of Tremendous Transition, Not Only For America But For The Whole World.

I Am Still Baffled By Those Who Feel That Criticizing America Is Unpatriotic, A View Increasingly Being Adopted In The United States Since 9/11 As An Excuse To Render Suspect What Has Always Been An American Right. An Active, Brave, Outspoken (and Heard) Citizenry Is Essential To A Healthy Democracy.

My Position On The Pow Issue Has Been Widely Misquoted And Taken Out Of Context. What I Originally Said And Have Continued To Say Is That The Pow's Are Lying If They Assert It Was North Vietnamese Policy To Torture American Prisoners.

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I Will Go To My Grave Regretting The Photograph Of Me In An Anti-aircraft Carrier [actually, It Was In An Anti-aircraft Gun Emplacement, Not A Carrier], Which Looks Like I Was Trying To Shoot At American Planes. [actually, That Was Her Intention In Posing For The Photograph The Way She Did.] It Hurt So Many Soldiers. It Galvanized Such Hostility. It Was The Most Horrible Thing I Could Possibly Have Done. It Was Just Thoughtless.

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You Don’t Learn From Successes; You Don’t Learn From Awards; You Don’t Learn From Celebrity; You Only Learn From Wounds And Scars And Mistakes And Failures. And That’s The Truth.

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Drink Water Between Meals Instead Of With Them So That The Digestive Juices Will Not Be Diluted.

When I Say Women Are The Agents Of Change, I Really Should Say Women And Girls.

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.

Women Are Not Forgiven For Aging. Robert Redford's Lines Of Distinction Are My Old-age Wrinkles.

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When A Child Enters The World Through You, It Alters Everything On A Psychic, Psychological And Purely Practical Level.

When You're Told To Be Good, You Have To Get Rid Of Whatever Is Bad. I Sure Identify With That.

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Good Enough Is Good Enough. We're Not Supposed To Be Perfect. We're Supposed To Be Complete.

If You're Ever In A Situation Where You're Not Getting Served Or You Can't Get What You Need, Just Cry.

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When You Know In Your Heart Why You Did Something, And You Feel And You Know That In Spite Of All The Controversy That It Was Right, Doesn't Matter.

I Was Shocked Into The Realization That I Myself Had Played An Unwitting Role As A Movie Star And Sex Symbol In Perpetrating The Stereotypes That Affected Women All Over The World.

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Instead Of Drifting Along Like A Leaf In A River, Understand Who You Are And How You Come Across To People And What Kind Of An Impact You Have On The People Around You And The Community Around You And The World, So That When You Go Out, You Can Feel You Have Made A Positive Difference.

I'm An Assistant Storyteller. It's Like Being A Waiter Or A Gas-station Attendant, But I'm Waiting On Six Million People A Week, If I'm Lucky.

Reproductive Freedom Is A Real Danger For The Patriarchy, Because It Means That Women Are Empowered.

I'm A Very Brave Person. I Can Go To North Vietnam, I Can Challenge My Government, But I Can't Challenge The Man I'm With If Means I'm Going To End Up Alone.

We Can No Longer Waste Time And Money. Every Day, More Than 2,000 Girls In America, Age 15-19, Give Birth - In The Wealthiest, Most Educated Nation In The World! Neither You Nor I Should Accept This Statistic.

As Is My Way, When I Start Something That I've Put Off Doing, I Always Start With The Hardest Form. So I Started With Ashtanga.

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A Lot Of Things Affect Women Differently Than Men, And Women Get Left Out.

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The Reality Is Sobering: In The United States One In Three Girls Will Become Pregnant Before Age 20, Totaling More Than 750,000 Girls Per Year.

I Feel Like My Honesty Gives People The Freedom To Talk About Things They Wouldn't Otherwise.

Women Don't Make The Decisions In The Media. Even If You See Women On Camera, They Have To Answer To The Person Upstairs, Which Is Mostly Men. Women Only Hold 3% Of The Decision-making Offices In The Media.

We Are Living On Average Today 34 Years Longer Than Our Great-grandparents Did.

I'm Vain. My Arms Are Thin, But I'm Vain About Loose Flesh. And So I'm Careful That What I Wear Will Show Off My Best Parts, Which Are My Waist And My Butt.

But The Whole Point Of Liberation Is That You Get Out. Restructure Your Life. Act By Yourself.

Christ Was The First Feminist And Because Of That I've Learned From His Teaching To Call Myself A Christian Feminist, Adding That Her Faith Is Not A Matter Of Traditions And Dogmas But, Rather, A Spiritual Experience.

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I Wasn't Pretty Enough To Be The Pretty Girl And I Wasn't Unattractive Enough To Be The Dorky Girl.

I Don't Know If A Country (america) Where The People Are So Ignorant Of Reality And Of History, If You Can Call That A Free World.

My Childhood Was Influenced By The Roles My Father Played In His Movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln Or Tom Joad In The Grapes Of Wrath, His Characters Communicated Certain Values Which I Try To Carry With Me To This Day.

Our Young People Are Assets To Be Cultivated And Nurtured; Let's Begin Treating Them That Way.

So Much Conspires To Silence Us - Because Our Truths Are Inherently Subversive.

Women Are Not Forgiven For Aging.

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We Don't Need To Be Perfect. We're Not Supposed To Be Perfect; We're Supposed To Be Complete. And You Can't Be Complete If You're Trying To Be Perfect.

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Aging Is A Staircase - The Upward Ascension Of The Human Spirit, Bringing Us Into Wisdom, Wholeness And Authenticity. As You May Know, The Entire World Operates On A Universal Law: Entropy, The Second Law Of Thermodynamics. Entropy Means That Everything In The World, Everything, Is In A State Of Decline And Decay, The Arch. There's Only One Exception To This Universal Law, And That Is The Human Spirit, Which Can Continue To Evolve Upwards.

We're Not Meant To Be Perfect. It Took Me A Long Time To Learn That.

Think About It: Reducing Crime And Poverty And Ensuring That We Have An Educated, Stable Work Force Has A Direct Effect On You And Me And The Future Of Our Country.

Who Am I? I'm A Survivor. I'm A Woman With Tremendous Inner Resources And Resilience. I Care About People. I Believe In 'do Unto Others As You Would Have Others Do Unto You,' And I Live By That. I Am Becoming Authentic, And That's Important To Me. I Have Surpassed Both My Parents In Terms Of Emotional Stability, Happiness And Well-being. And I'm A Lucky Woman. I've Deserved My Luck.

I Don't Think It's Natural For Two People To Swear To Be Together For The Rest Of Their Lives.

It's Much More Important To Be Interested Than To Be Interesting.

Teach Girls To Read And To Work At Something Where They Can Bring Home Money - And The Entire Balance Of Power Shifts.

People Think Actresses Find Public Speaking Easy, And It's Not Easy At All; We're Used To Hiding Behind Masks.

Working In Hollywood Does Give One A Certain Expertise In The Field Of Prostitution.

An Exercise Outfit Helps Because It Sets This Time Apart From The Rest Of Your Day And Makes It Matter More.

If Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Is To Become A Priority, Then Our Strategy, As Advocates, Must Contain Two Key Elements: Civic Engagement And Education.

When I'm In Canada, I Feel This Is What The World Should Be Like.

A Big Mirror To Exercise In Front Of Is Essential.

Being Henry Fonda's Daughter Got Me Started. But It Didn't Keep Me Working.

The Institution Of Marriage Is Obsolete.

Female Listeners Are Leaving Traditional Talk Radio Because Of The Rough-edged, Shouting Nature Of It. Women Want More Light And Less Heat.

You Are Being Used As Cannon Fodder For U.s. Imperialism.

Female Listeners Are Leaving Traditional Talk Radio Because Of The Rough-edged, Shouting Nature Of It.

Relationships Are The Oxygen Of The Psyche.

The Secret Of Losing Weight Is Patience.

When You Can't Remember Why You're Hurt, That's When You're Healed.

I've Always Felt Like A Teacher. Whenever I've Learned Something Important, My Reaction Has Always Been To Tell Everybody About It. I Read A Book, I Buy 100 Copies And I Send Them Out.

What's Totally Terrifying Is That, Unlike A Musician Who Has A Musical Instrument, Or A Painter That's Got A Canvas And A Brush, Acting Is Us. Our Energy, Our Soul, Our Spirits. And It's So Hard Because It's So Vulnerable. You're Exposing Everything.

I Think I Look Good For My Age. I've Always Looked Younger Than I Really Am. I'm 67 And I Look About, Maybe 62 Or Something Like That. And I Think My Healthy Lifestyle Has Paid Off. I Suffer From Osteoarthritis. That's Genetic And There's Nothing I Can Do About That, Except To Try And Not Jump Up And Down, But Rather Swim And Bike, Instead Of Jumping Up And Down.

Namby-pamby Little Routines That Don't Speed Up Your Heartbeat And Make You Sweat Aren't Worth Your While.

I Was Raised In The '50s. I Was Taught By My Father That How I Looked Was All That Mattered.

You're More Powerful When Talking From Your Soul.

Physical Fitness Is A Three-legged Stool: Strength, Aerobic Capacity, And Flexibility.

Food Is More Than A Matter Of Taste-it Is The Fuel For Our Bodies.

The Sex Is Better And I Understand Life Better. I Don't Want To Be Young Again.

I Left Acting For 15 Years, And I Think It's Really Nice To Have Another Life. I Took Too Much For Granted When I Was Younger.

If You Allow Yourself, You Can Become Stronger In The Very Places That You've Been Broken.

Telling Lies And Showing Off To Get Attention Are Mistakes I Made That I Don't Want My Kids To Make.

I Hate To Create Cynicism About Politicians. We Just Need To Invade. Regular People Need To Run For Office And Keep Their Balls And Ovaries Intact.

The Challenge Is Not To Be Perfect. It’s To Be Whole.

The Vulnerability Of Opening Your Heart Fully And Deeply To Another Is Terrifying, But At A Point In My 50s, I Realized That I Had To Step Up To The Plate.

Parents Are Supposed To Give The Child Back To Herself With Love. If They've Got Duct Tape Over Their Eyes Because Of Narcissism, It Doesn't Happen.

The News Is Not Gender-neutral, But It's Usually Reported As Though It's Gender-neutral.

If We As A Nation Are To Break The Cycle Of Poverty, Crime And The Growing Underclass Of Young People Ill Equipped To Be Productive Citizens, We Need To Not Only Implement Effective Programs To Prevent Teen Pregnancy, But We Must Also Help Those Who Have Already Given Birth So That They Become Effective, Nurturing, Bonding Parents.

When Women Have Reclaimed Their Voices And Men Reclaimed Their Hearts, We Won't Be Invading Countries, We Won't Be Feeling That We Have The Right To Launch Preemptive Wars.

I Always Carry Yeast Flakes And Bran With Me When I Travel.

Your Goal Should Be To Take Your Body And Make It As Healthy, Strong, Flexible And Well-proportioned As You Can.

Studios Weren't Banging On My Door To Offer Me Parts... And I Thought, Well How Am I Ever Going To Make Movies That Speak To My Heart And To My Values?

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.

I Left Acting For 15 Years, And I Think It's Really Nice To Have Another Life. I Took Too Much For Granted When I Was Younger. I Didn't Really Want To Be An Actor. I Didn't Really Love It. And So I Made A Lot Of Mistakes. Oddly, I Care Much More About It Now. I Feel Like A Complete Novice.

I'd Like To Think That I Have Integrity.

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I Never Was A Hippie! I Went To India Because So Many Friends Like Mia Farrow And The Beatles Were Going There To Discover Truth. And So I Went And Trekked Through India By Myself, But Instead Of Discovering Truth, I Wanted To Join The Peace Corps.

Movies Are Collective, Cooperative Endeavours, Which I Like A Lot. But Writing Is All Up To You, It's What's So Scary; It's Just You And That Page. But I Really Like It A Lot.

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Lee Strasberg Told Me I Had Talent. Real Talent. It Was The First Time That Anyone, Except My Father--who Had To Say So--told Me I Was Good. At Anything. It Was A Turning Point In My Life. I Went To Bed Thinking About Acting. I Woke Up Thinking About Acting. It Was Like The Roof Had Come Off My Life!

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