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Diablo Cody
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 14
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Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?
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I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.
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Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints.
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I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.
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There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.
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Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.
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The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!
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Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.
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Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.
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I grew up in the Midwest you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.
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Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.
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I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.
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There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.
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The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips and falls, the adorable klutz.
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I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.
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Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
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I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.
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You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.
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I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.
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The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.
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