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“You express different energies at different times in your life.”

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Marisa Tomei is an American actress renowned for her Oscar-winning performance in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'. She is celebrated for her exceptional performances in films such as 'Forrest Gump', 'American Beauty', and 'Julie & Julia'. more

“I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.”

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Author:Marisa Tomei

“Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.”

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Author:Marisa Tomei

“Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.”

Knows Mean Celebration

Author:James Woods

“Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.”

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Author:James Woods

“Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.”

“Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.”

Knows Writing Important Happiness Important Things

Author:Richard Ford

“Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.”

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Author:Richard Ford

“America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.”

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Author:Richard Ford

“I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.”

Mind Logical Orderly

Author:Richard Ford

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