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“I've loved Calvin Trillin's The Tummy Trilogy since I was a child, when my dad read it aloud to me.”
“I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I could ease into those at will and by my own choice. But in other aspects, ...”
“The only way to want millions of people invading your life is to be off your rocker. This industry is conducive to cuckoo. It likes cuckoo. It encourages cuckoo. I've had to find my sanity.”
“I’m very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don’t even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I’m not interested in ...”
“It’s funny, because there’s a lot of fear in Hollywood about ever being typecast, and I kind of feel like, Man, if you’re going to be typecast, what better to be typecast as a kick-ass chick? I try...”
“If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?”
“I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.”
“The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.”
“It’s not that I don’t have convictions, or that I won’t defend them. I save my battles for things that have meaning instead of tilting at every mild irritation that comes my way. You can fritter aw...”
“Jilly always says the family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of g...”
“Humanity’s whole unfortunate history is one long account of how we attack what we don’t understand, what’s strange to us.”
“See, when you get down to the basics of it, everything’s just molecules vibrating. Which is what music is, what sound is—vibrations in the air. So we’re all part of that music and the worthier it i...”
“I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there’s no excuse for that. It’s not something I’ll let happen to me again.”
“He can be so sweet on one page, and then on the next he’s taking you on a tour through an abattoir.Just like life, Bramley said.”
“Blasting out of the stores speakers was the new Beastie Boys album. It sounded like a cross between heavy metal and bad rap and was about as appealing as being hit by a car. You couldn’t deny its e...”
“Don’t you ever watch TV?Jilly shook her head. What? And let the aliens monitor my brain waves?”
“The best kinds of practical jokes are those that backfire on whoever’s playing the trick.”
“The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.”
“I’d rather stare at a brick wall, any time, than watch that damn TV in the lounge, he’d told Jilly more than once. That’s when things started to go wrong—with the invention of television. Wasn’t ti...”
“Jilly was one of those who preferred to know what was going on and try to do something about it, rather than pretend it wasn’t happening and hoping that, by ignoring what was wrong, it would just g...”
