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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.

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 don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine.
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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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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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My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband.
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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'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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I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.
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I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
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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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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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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.
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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 can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.
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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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