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I'm learning how to live in the present and be grateful for what's working rather than look for the 'what's not working' piece.

Ali MacGraw

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Ali MacGraw
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 1
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Elizabeth Alice MacGraw
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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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I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit.
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I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
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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 think we live in a time where people are just insane on the subject of how they look.
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It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
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I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.
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My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.
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Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
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In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.
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You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
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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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Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
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I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.
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I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention.
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I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
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Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.
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Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.
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I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.
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