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I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.

AGoodThing Because Chef Cook
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Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

Before City Grew Important
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One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: you are.

About Best Blame Confusion
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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

Always Easier Fist How
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I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Actually feel Stories Brain
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Feeling Science fiction Connected Real world
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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Explicit Social problems Prejudged
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I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along.

Model Woman Married
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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world

Fantasy Complete break Situation
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Mother Interestingly enough Feminist Mind
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It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
Hard Focus Single character
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It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Future Logical Science fiction
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People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

People Messy Mutable Combining differently
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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier

Boil down Parenting Autism
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Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

Struggle gave Chance Demonstrate Strength
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Motivation is the power behind plot.
Motivation Power Pot
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Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

Fantasy Past defenses
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One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

One thing Nobody Do better Be you
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No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

No matter Predictable Life
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You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.

Big Dogs Like Puppy
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Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

Life Value Gained Think
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It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'

Farewell Industry Just Kind
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When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

Person Responds emotionally Traditional
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So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends.

Odd Women Technological knowledge Mothers
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If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

Balance Check Different Doctors
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There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.

Sports Growing up Loved Race
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I had to find the courage to turn my life around.
Around Courage Find Had
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No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.

Want Paparazzi Following me Life
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What's scummy about the music industry is that everybody loves you when you're dead.

About Dead Everybody Industry
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I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.

You Girlfriends Have Sisters
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I've always loved being a student.

Always Loved Student
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Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

Celebrities Losing Movie Mystique
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Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.
I don't Read books Entertainment
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Through recovery, I've been able to do so much good stuff.

Able Been Good Much Recovery
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But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

Books Read Die
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You can get through anything if you want it bad enough.

Anything Bad Enough Get
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When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

My parent Believe God Religion
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You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.
Clarity Get Older Sober
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People don’t need careers. People should just exist.

People Need Careers Exist
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I've always had a complex about being taken seriously.

Always Complex Taken seriously
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If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else will discover it and think it's great too.

Like something Great Discover
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I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to literature and theory. I wish I could have more of that in life, but I don't because I'm always reading scripts or things to prepare for movies when I'm reading.

Literature Life Reading script Prepared
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I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.
Social person Love World Feeling
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I get way too much happiness from good food.
Get way Happiness Good food
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You want everyone to succeed in your family.

Want Everyone Succeed Family
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I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

Just need Figure out Grow Without compromising
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I never wanted anyone to think that I would use my family name to get me anywhere.

Never wanted Anyone Use Family name
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The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

The tabloids Own stories People's lives
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I'm terrified of improve. Improve in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Terrified Improve Front Audience
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I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Think Every day Soak up Understand
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