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Well, What Is A Relationship? It's About Two People Having Tremendous Weaknesses And Vulnerabilities, Like We All Do, And One Person Being Able To Strengthen The Other In Their Areas Of Vulnerability, And Vice Versa. You Need Each Other. You Complete Each Other, Passion And Romance Aside.

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Well, What Is A Relationship? It's About Two People Having Tremendous Weaknesses And Vulnerabilities, Like We All Do, And One Person Being Able To Strengthen The Other In Their Areas Of Vulnerability, And Vice Versa. You Need Each Other. You Complete Each Other, Passion And Romance Aside.

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

As I Saw My 60th Birthday Approaching, I Thought,what Did 60 Mean To Me? I Figured I'd Probably Live Until I'm About 90, Which Meant That I Was At The Beginning Of What I Call My Third Act. As An Actress, I Know How Important The Third Act Is. It Makes Sense Of The First And Second Acts. You Can Have First And Second Acts That Are Interesting, But You Don't Know What They Mean. Then A Good Third Act Pulls It All Together. And So I Knew That, Because I Sat By My Father's Side Over The Long Months When He Was Dying.

When You Think You Can't Do Any More Repetitions, Do Two More.

We Need Women Friends, Women Who Challenge Us... I Have Chosen Not To Have Any More Plastic Surgery. Sally Field And I Have Kind Of Made A Pact About That. It's Really Hard, Especially If You're A Public Person. But I Want To Give A Face To Aging.

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