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The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

Ali MacGraw

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Ali MacGraw
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 1
Actor
Actress
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Film Actor
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Television Actor
Pound Ridge
New York
Elizabeth Alice MacGraw
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I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.
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Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.
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I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.
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I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.
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I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.
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Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
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I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.
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I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
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If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.
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I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.
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I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
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