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I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.
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Mail
Want
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As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.
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Life Your Who
Collaborated
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Camp is like this set-apart world where people go to try to change who they are, and yet change is really scary.
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Scary
Change World People
Change Where World
Camp
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I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
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Influenced
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This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.
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Instruction
Tests
This Life
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The Huntington Theatre has a really fine reputation. I was keenly aware of how well thought of they are and that they develop and support new plays.
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Reputation
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This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.
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Embarrassing
Jam
Pearl Jam
Admit
Anything Never Know
Never Know Anything
Pearl
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I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.
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Teen
Work Myself Always
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I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.
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Girl
Islands
Long
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For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you're always going to be disappointed.
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Communicate
Disappointed
Love Always Your
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I think you end up writing things you like. I like seeing actors playing two different parts at the same time. I think it's interesting. It kind of shows you two sides of a person.
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Sides
Different Parts
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The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.
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Discovery
Funny Way
High Schools
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I do love the idea of people at a certain time in their lives when they're questioning, figuring out who to be. I find that interesting, but honestly, I think it's like that at every time in your life.
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Questioning
Life Love Time
Figuring
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The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don't express or even know about pours out in our dreams.
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Our Dreams
Real Truth
Plane
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Series television is kind of intensive in terms of time. You fall hard for TV writing, but it's almost love-hate. You're under pressure all the time, but that pressure gets interesting things out of you that are, you know, mysterious.
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Interesting Things
Love Hate
Mysterious
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I loved the whole idea, first of all, of what friendship is. Very often, there are people that somehow you don't know how to declare that you are their friend, but you are their friend. That happens in a lot in high school. And outside of high school.
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Friendship
People Know School
Declare
First Of All
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I don't think of myself as a producer. In television, it's part of the business - if you progress and become successful as a writer, you're called a writer-producer. What that means is that you have a lot of say in casting and behind-the-scenes stuff. But I'm just a writer.
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Casting
Producer
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When you're doing a series, you're really in a zone. You're thinking about those characters and their situations in a free-floating way all the time. They live with you all the time. So it's just as natural as breathing to be having ideas and thinking about what they're thinking about.
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Time Thinking Way
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I care about actors, and I understand them in a very personal way. I'm not saying every writer has to do that, but in my case, it's been helpful. I can put myself into the scene and think, 'What would it be like to act this?' Any writer who's really good probably does that to some extent.
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I'm certainly a real homebody. But the truth is that I understand that desire to, in a way, go join the circus. That's what got me out of Long Island and into show business. I was like, 'I'm just going to have an adventure. I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.'
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Adventure
Cat
Circus
Long Island
Mail
Show Business
Truth Is
Island
Join
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Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth - that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me.
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Truth
Beautiful
Hate
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I really learned that, when I got into television, I really learned the power, how deeply it affects people to see themselves on television, to see something that they can relate to, that they feel is like them in some way; people feel validated. Its not a little thing. It really means a lot to people. It actually can change people.
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Relate
Change Power People
Affects
Little Thing
Validated
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