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I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works.

Adored Beside Breaking Ever
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My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

About Decent Director Feeling
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Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
Actor Child Growing Growing Up
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I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

Actual Ever Life Made
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Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.

Agency Because Car Car Keys
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Absolutely Does Just Like
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I'm nice, and I show up on time.

Nice Show Time Up
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One of the things I like about the show is it redefines the idea of what it is to be a mother, which at its most basic level is to take care of a child. It doesn't mean you have to look like the ladies in the Lysol commercials.

About Basic Care Child
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Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

About Care Don't Care Enough
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Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.
Ever Jeans Personally Want
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I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

Also Big Big Deal Dated
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While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

Much Relationship Very Want
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My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

Got Had Little Lived
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When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

Actor Been Being Creator
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None of my characters have really had jobs.

Characters Had Jobs None
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I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.

Demands Ending Just Know
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The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

America Enlightenment Reason Schools
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.

Afterlife Consoling Idea Immensely
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Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Could Coverage Improved Item
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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Always Apt Beautiful Better
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Adolescence Alone Always Had
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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

About How Intelligent Mind
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I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

Bully Excruciating Felt Had
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Always Bleak Family Family Life
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

Aunts Believe Books Could
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I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
Extraordinary People Put Real
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

Down Get Paper Remember
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My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

Able At Least One Been Bonus
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Artist Confidence Consolation Doubt
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Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Another Conveyed Evil Literal
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A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

Accomplish Determined Machine Monkey
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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Art Expensive Get Job
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I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

Book Few Fire Friends
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It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Lifelong Quiet Race Steady
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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

Believe Delusion Despite Evidence
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His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

Bill Dull Full Had
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I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Artificial Could Criticism Dislike
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The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Bedrock Better Down Get
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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Any Hand Means Mother
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Cards Credit Credit Cards Father
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Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success

Failure Success Think
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Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Children Hand Leaves Never
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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

About Among Argue Critics
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To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Blame Computer Err Even
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

Delivered Keep Like Most
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Evolution never looks to the future.
Evolution Future Looks Never
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There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

Ugly things World Son Wish
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Proud Yourself Insulted Stranger
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Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings

Inflation Savings Your
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it

Bad language Children Dies Learn
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