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“As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.”

Life Nature Healing Mindfulness Regrets Introvertedness

Book:Then Again

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“acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.”

Actors Acting Company Wild Ride

Book:Then Again

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“Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.”

Way Helping Humor Grace Offers Absurdity Coping Benign

Book:Then Again

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“What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.”

Creativity Perfection

Book:Then Again

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“Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.”

People Self Beautiful Situation Depth Serving Superficial Self Serving

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“I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.”

Believe Doe Style Shoes Saving Why Not

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“I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.”

Thinking Process Growth Brain Accepting Embrace Accepting Change Embrace Change

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“Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.”

People Ifs Want Mean Play Sound Walks Like You Privilege Disappear Sunset Retirement Hobbies Retired

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“Thanksgiving isn't the only thing that has changed. This makes it reassuring somehow to go through the same ritual with the people you're connected to. I guess the truth is, it all boils down to family. Right?”

People Community Changed Truth Is Unity Connected Ritual Reassuring

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“Somehow weddings bring out the most insane moments in people's lives.”

People Moments Insane

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“When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.”

Body Eye Wanted Young Interesting Appearance

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“Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.”

Moving Found Cameras Endure Photograph Immortality Clicks Permanence Life Moves On

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“[Women photographers] provide an inspiring reminder to all women that the choice to see, or be seen, is ours. We live in a culture in which this decision is undermined by the notion that the single most valuable contribution a woman can make is to be visually attractive. Women photographers make a strong case for seeing and an even stronger case for recording what you see.”

Choices Culture Strong Decision Cases Seeing Stronger Notion Photographer Valuable Attractive Contribution Reminders Attractive Woman

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“Stephen Shadley is a great collaborator. Over the years I've seen him work with a wide variety of clients and stylistic approaches. He listens to people in a way that makes them feel like they're part of the process. Steve is an inspiration on all fronts, and, believe me, that's a rare quality.”

People Way Feels Years Believe Inspiration Process Quality Fronts Approach Wide Variety Believe In Me Clients Collaborators

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“Life is short and experiences with remarkable people are rare.”

People Life Is Remarkable Life Is Short

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“Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Children Force Forget Principles Issues Changed Claims Parenting Motherhood Addresses Forget It Raising Children Being A Mother Humbling Humbling Experiences

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“A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.”

Age Life Experience

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“It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.”

Ifs Wells Kind Middle Planets Advantage Disappear Middle Aged True You

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“The thing is, though, that some of these people are my age, right? And I didn't know them. I didn't know Susan Sarandon. I mean, I'd seen her.”

People Knows Mean Age

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“I was cast in this commercial called "Hour After Hour." It was for a deodorant that won't wear off. And [Susan Sarandon] became the Hour After Hour girl after me. But I never met her. So I didn't really know Susan till after this movie [ "The Big Wedding"].”

Knows Bigs Girl Hours Mets Casts After Hours Deodorant

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“Robert De Niro, even though I've been in two other movies with him, I never really got to know him at all. But on this movie ["The Big Wedding"] I did.”

Knows Two Bigs De Niro

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“Robert De Niro is just evolved as a human being. He's a very kind guy. Age has been good for him, in terms of just, he's very kind.”

Humans Kind Has Beens Age Guy Term Human Beings De Niro

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“Robin Williams, another person I didn't know. He is genuinely hilarious.”

Knows Persons Robins

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“Katherine Heigl, she was exactly the opposite of what I thought she'd be like. She smokes cigarettes, or she did then, and she's got a truck-driver's mouth, and she's really funny.”

Mouths Opposites Smoke Drivers Cigarette Truck Truck Driver

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“Amanda (Seyfried) has this dog that goes everywhere with her.”

Dog Amanda

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“My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss. He didn't fall in love with her.”

Fall Courses Loss Daughter Falling In Love Tragic My Daughter Tragic Loss

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“What's interesting about Topher [Grace] to me was, he's playing a 29-year-old virgin, which was really kind of hard for me to believe in real life, you get my drift? I mean, that was really not possible. And somehow he pulled it off.”

Years Believe Kind Mean Real Hard Interesting Grace Real Life Virgins

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“You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.”

Thinking Way Persons Different Seems Careers Another Time

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“It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.”

Way Hard Past Odd

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“I've never really looked back.”

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“There's also a certain segment that doesn't know what "Annie Hall" is. Seriously, it's true.”

Knows Certain Halls Annie Annie Hall

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“I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.”

People Knows Kids Late Halls Adopted Annie Annie Hall

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“What I like about that is it kind of puts you in your place. Don't count on being remembered. Just live now, you know?”

Knows Kind Remembered Just Live

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“I don't think so much anymore. When you're younger, and at your height, then people want you to do that great one again. But seriously, things are forgotten, and that's the truth.”

People Thinking Want Forgotten Height Great Ones

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“I rarely get the "Annie Hall" references other than from people who are aficionados of movies, people who really care about movies. But in general, people don't even think about it.”

People Thinking Care Halls Annie Annie Hall

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“By the way, everybody approaches acting differently. Like, I'm kind of sloppy and I like it kind of loose. I like to kind of play around. Some people don't.”

People Way Kind Play Acting Approach Sloppy

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“Topher Grace is a really smart guy, and he really thinks about [acting].”

Thinking Guy Acting Grace Smart Really Smart Smart Guy

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“[Topher Grace] is thought about what he's going to do and he has a lot of ideas. So there's that.”

Ideas Grace

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“With Robert De Niro, you're thinking, suddenly he'll do something you don't expect, or he appears and he's kind of slow to get there but then he gets there in a way that nobody does. Everybody is just really, extremely different.”

Thinking Way Kind Doe Different De Niro

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“Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm proud of my movies with Woody (Allen).”

Giving Father Proud Brides Woody Nancy Father Of The Bride

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“I'm proud of "Shoot the Moon."”

Proud Moon

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“There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.”

Way Feels Enough Lucky Feel Good Great Experiences I Feel Good

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“I don't want to watch [films I was acting in]. I've had enough of me.”

Want Enough Film Acting Watches Had Enough

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“This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.”

Enough Stuff Half Too Much Empty Half Full Half Empty

Book:Then Again

Source: Then Again

“...I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.”

People Want Doors Extended Family More Than Friends

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“That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.”

Feels Light Grateful Shed Be Grateful Thank You

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“We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.”

Trying Past Solve Riddle

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“Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.”

Years Age Values Too Much Planets Regret Fearless Frightened Great Value Takeaways

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“Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.”

Aging Obstacles Keep Going Worth It

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“The best relationships develop out of friendships.”

Friendship Best Relationship

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About the Author

Born: January 5, 1946
Known for: Film actress
Quotes: 88

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