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My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

Card Disappointment Her Influence
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The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

Chances Concern Considered Diminished
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Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Closed Door End Era
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I'm sure I've changed my mind about something. Inevitably, when we grow up - as we get more experience and wiser. Well, I've changed my mind about some food that I didn't like when I was young.

About Changed Experience Food
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The worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.

Alone Certain Courtroom Eight
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I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women's movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

Alive Argue Became Clause
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We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

Come Days Go Long
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I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.

Actress Always Being Dreamed
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I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Background Come Even Ever
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I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

Always Bossy Good Keen
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Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.

Able About Acting Am
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I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

Affair Arts Beginning Box
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As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

Adrenaline Being Child Even
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Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

Advisable America Back Bathroom
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My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

Been Cinematic Crush Has-Been
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Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

Before Came Compassion Deep
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No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

According Anything Conclusion Did
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I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

Because Brought Genuinely Had
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I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

Attention Because Conversation Dinner
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I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble rank - I blush not to state it, nor am I sorry - for the profit of others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to a foreign nation for the unspeakable glory of the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

According Blush Born Christ
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It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days.

Any Care Come Days
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Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

Achieved Before Lurks Tomorrow
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I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion.

Act Around Different Different Ideas
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I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

Anyone Belonged Birthday Birthday Party
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I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

Brand Brought Chanel Him
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When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

About Book Discovered Evolution
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

Accent Along American American Accent
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I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

Almost Another Any Asking
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I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

About Awful Brown Bullied
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Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me.

Anywhere Days Even Go
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I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.

Mean College Thinking
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Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver.
Attention Deliver Had Once
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My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

Around Bear Brothers Career
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All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Bright Brightest Fade Lost
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Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Age Carry Claimed Could
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Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

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I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
Admit Cover Honored Time
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I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.

Any Become Bit Broadway
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I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me.

Cole Porter Enough First Five
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I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Bedroom Born Difference Does
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I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.

Ambitious Been Old Somebody
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Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.

Admire Eisenhower Hero Most
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I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

Admit To Drinking It
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Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.
Students Don't Know Who
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Anybody Failure Interested Man
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I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

Acting Clearly Dealing I Can
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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Butterfly Did Dust He
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Always Could Day Except
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There will be no whitewash in the White House.
House White White House Will
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

American American History Event History
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