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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

Absurd Argument Been Christian
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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Death Devil Get Joy
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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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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Companion Lay Lays Many
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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Candle Certain Day Either
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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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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Another Button Cause Life
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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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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture Create Function Objects
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Brains Capable Farthest Happiness
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Cruel Expected Gentleness Learned
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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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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Admires After Centuries Conservative
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If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
Enjoy Going Least Something
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Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

No-One Prepared Some Some Things
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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Affectionate Communication Humor Insight
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

Agreeing Communication Extremists Means
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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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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Capacity Confront Courage Imagined
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Artist Artwork Care Chance
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