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Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.
Ali MacGraw
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Ali MacGraw
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 1
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Pound Ridge
New York
Elizabeth Alice MacGraw
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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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People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.
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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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I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
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I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
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I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.
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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'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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If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.
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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.
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Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.
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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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Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.
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I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.
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There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.
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I had no real experience studying acting I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.
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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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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'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.
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