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Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

Celebrate Christmas Dad Like
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

Actor Always Gets Life
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Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn't plan to play a single mom. I didn't plan, even, to do an ensemble show. But I hadn't found anything I liked as much. I just connected to the show.

Another Anything Connected Drama
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I always saw myself as a comedic actor and wacky best friend.
Actor Always Best Best Friend
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What I remember about coming to L.A. is that suddenly work was as big a presence in my life as my life itself.

About Big Coming I Remember
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Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single!
About How Long Me
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The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.
About Good Good Writing Music
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The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.
Dependent Focus Intensity Time
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Because I have no consistent schedule as an actor, it was difficult to develop one as a writer. Ideally, I'd like to write first thing in the morning, every day. But sometimes I'm called to set before the sun comes up, or I've worked late the night before, or I'm on a plane.

Actor Because Before Consistent
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I've pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.

About Always Am Been
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I've always really liked being active. I do Spinning classes, I run, I have a trainer, I do Pilates with my sister Shade.

Active Always Being Classes
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Sometimes I'll think, 'That was a really nice day. I ate well, I exercised, I called some friends, wasn't working too hard,' but I rarely have one of those.

Ate Day Friends Hard
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Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap.

Closet Closets Dad Dress
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I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional Krispy Kreme doughnut.

Delivery Diet Doughnut Eat
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For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for homecoming.'

Braces Call Cast Date
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Acquisition Desire Ever Increases
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Alarm Consists Courtship Nor
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Anything Asleep Conduct His
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Amusing Change Ideas Nothing
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

About Both Bound Duty
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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Begin Constantly Frenzy Our
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Consumption Goals Heights Pleasure
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Capture Groundwork Heart Lessons
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Darkness Each Light Like
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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Care Enjoy Health Hoard
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Conversation Different I Think May
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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Add Brass Current Gold
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Accomplished Acquaintance Books Brag
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People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

Always Care Enjoy Enough
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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Advantage Bargain Discontented Excellent
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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Along Articles Brings Dwarf
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Ask Govern Governs Here
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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Holes More Occasions Other
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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Certainly Duties Easy Most
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Add Alas Contentment Grandeur
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Alone Any Asked Cottage
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.

Actions Appearance Case Compliment
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Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

Bread Just Just As Much Light
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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Drawing Faster Leaves Less
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A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Beautiful Catastrophe Hundred Hundred Times
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The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Chest Home Living Should
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Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture Correct Forms Game
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The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

Passive Ironic Attitude Destructive
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence Advise Another Any
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If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
Enjoy Going Least Something
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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Being Believe Cease Never
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We see things as we are, not as they are.

See Things We see They
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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Being Help Only Professional
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Fiction Make Sense Stranger
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Above Before Cannot Cynicism
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