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I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

Beauty Could Feedback Funny
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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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If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.

After Bar First First Time
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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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I get concerned when I see kids on their phones. They don't read enough anymore, anything longer than a tweet.

Anymore Anything Concerned Enough
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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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Having trees and a track to run on have become more important to me than living near cool restaurants.

Become Cool Having Important
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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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I've always thought my strengths were I'm smart, and I have a good sense of humor. I definitely struggle with feeling confident.

Always Confident Definitely Feeling
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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 really think if you're trying to look good, do something athletic. I have a little mini tramp, and sometimes I'll just try to jump for 20 minutes. It gets your blood circulating, and that always looks really pretty.

Always Athletic Blood Gets
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Just for daily wear, I love discovering new jeans companies.

Companies Daily Discovering I Love
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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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I've learned a lot from trainers over the years, but mainly that you need discipline to stay in the gym and out of the many fine cupcake emporiums on every corner.

Corner Discipline Every Fine
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.

Acting Always American American Idol
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I love doing the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle, even on the days I can't finish it.
Crossword Days Doing Even
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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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I dream of playing Lady Cora's sister on 'Downton Abbey.'

Abbey Downton Abbey Dream I Dream
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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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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.

Bad Bad One Cause Good
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Arrive Brave Forgive Generous
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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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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Cant Criticism Hypocrites May
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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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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Gains Itself Lean Learns
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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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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Guides Manners Morals Others
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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Acquire Enemies Every Hundred
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God Tempers Lamb Wind
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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.

Able Actor Create Hand
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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Eyes Get Keep Life
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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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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

Adds Am Every Every Time
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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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