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I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
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I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I’m careful. I don’t even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
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I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
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I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
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It’s funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.
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There’s always an article coming out, saying, ’The new thing is funny women!’
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I mean, I - it’s so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I’ve been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
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My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
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None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
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All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.
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If you’re writing, you’re starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it’s for other people - that comes in later.
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I feel like I don’t watch that many shows with death.
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I’m not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.
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All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.