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When I Was Twenty-one, A Friend Gave Me A Book Called Diet For A New America By John Robbins, Which Exposed The Brutal Practices Of American Factory Farms. That, Coupled With A Lecture From Leonardo Dicaprio (when He Was Nineteen And I Was Twenty-one) About How Such Animals Are Kept And Processed, Made Me Lose My Desire For Factory Farm Pork And Beef Right There.

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When I Was Twenty-one,

Gwyneth Paltrow

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When I Was Twenty-one, A Friend Gave Me A Book Called Diet For A New America By John Robbins, Which Exposed The Brutal Practices Of American Factory Farms. That, Coupled With A Lecture From Leonardo Dicaprio (when He Was Nineteen And I Was Twenty-one) About How Such Animals Are Kept And Processed, Made Me Lose My Desire For Factory Farm Pork And Beef Right There.

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You Know, I Use Organic Products, But I Get [laser Treatments]. It's What Makes Life Interesting, Finding The Balance Between Cigarettes And Tofu.

We've Got A Wood-burning Pizza Oven In The Garden - A Luxury, I Know, But It's One Of The Best Investments I've Ever Made.

If We Were Living In Ancient Rome Or Greece, I Would Be Considered Sickly And Unattractive. The Times Dictate That Thin Is Better For Some Strange Reason, Which I Think Is Foolish.

If Your Role Is To Mentor Somebody, What You're Essentially Doing Is Taking Stock Of What You've Learned, The Mistakes You've Made, The Successes You've Had, And You Kind Of Coalesce Them And Then You Translate Them Back Out.

I Have An Amazing Team, And We Find People Who Resonate With Us, But Sometimes Our Scope Is Still Small Because We Are A Pretty Small Group And We Have So Much Work To Do. We Get Approached A Lot.

Sometimes Harvey Weinstein Will Let Me Use The Miramax Jet If I'm Opening A Supermarket For Him.

The Older I Get, The More Open-minded I Get, The Less Judgmental I Get.

You Have To Know Why You're Rushing About. It's Ok To Rush About But It's Important To Know What's Driving You, The Positives Of It And The Negatives Of It.

I'm Not Great About Putting On Make-up, I Look Like A Wreck Half The Time.

I Try As Best I Can To Really Put All I Can Into What I'm Doing. A Lot Of Days I Fail And There's Too Much To Do. I Do Think It's Really Important To Have Time To Yourself, Whether That's Reading Something Interesting When The Kids Are In Bed Or Even Having A Dog.

I Don't Have Time To Devote To Putting Outfits Together Before Picking Up The Kids. I'm A Creature Of Habit And In That Way, I Tend To Just Go Towards What Works For Me And What's Comfortable. It's Really Important To Be Comfortable When You're Running Around After Kids.

In My 20s Because I Was Working On Films So Much And Travelling So Much And Doing Press, I Was Single With No Kids And I Think That's The Time When Not Only Are You Trying On Looks, But You're Trying On Personalities - You're Still Really Forming.

For Me When I Was Growing Up, Some Of The Happiest Times Were When We Went To A Small Island Called Nantucket Off Massachusetts.

Even Actresses That You Really Admire, Like Reese Witherspoon, You Think, 'another Romantic Comedy?' You See Her In Something Like 'walk The Line' And Think, 'god, You're So Great!' And Then You Think, 'why Is She Doing These Stupid Romantic Comedies?' But Of Course, It's For Money And Status.

If You Carve Out What You Expect, That's How You End Up Getting Disappointed, Not Living Fully In The Present.

I Basically Love Anything That Comes In A Hot Dog Bun... Except Hot Dogs.

I Have A Sort Of Sisterly Feeling Toward Him [ben Affleck]. I Want Him To Do Well And Grow Up And Be A Happy Person And A Fully Realized Man.

The Adrenaline Of A Live Performance Is Unlike Anything In Film Or Theater. I Can See Why It's So Addictive.

There's Something That Sort Of Weirds Me Out About Actors Who Want To Be Rock Stars, And The Other Way Around Too.

When I Venture Out To Eat, I Like To Go To Places With Food That I Don't Know How To Make. So My Favorites Are Japanese And Indian. Indian Food Has So Much Layering Of Flavor, And The Dishes Go Together So Harmoniously.

Having Survived Her 10th London Winter (she Got Through January By Assigning It "international Month," And Amusing Moses And His Big Sister, Apple, 9, With A Visiting Italian Chef, Japanese Anime Screenings, And Hand-rolled-sushi Lessons, No Less), Paltrow Admits That Her Dreams Of Relocating The Family To Their Recently Acquired Residence In Brentwood, California, Are Becoming Ever More Urgent.

I've Always Been Very Independent. Even In Relationships, I'm Focused On The Quality Of My Life And Not Enmeshing Myself So Much With Somebody Else's Experience. But I Think There's Incredible Value In Being Married.

I'm 43 Years Old, And I Know Who I Am, And I Own My Mistakes. They're My Business. And When Somebody Who Doesn't Know Me Has An Opinion, It's None Of My Business.

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