Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

Emma, Emma, Emma, " I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.

I'm not worried about repeating myself - I'm more worried that I'd just get bored.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

First of all, I never think of my characters as good or evil. I play them as honestly as I can. When you're playing a good character, you have an idea that you're playing the hero and the good guy.

If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

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