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I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.

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Gwyneth Paltrow
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 27
Actress
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Gwyneth Kate Paltrow
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The simpler things are, the happier they are.
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I'm looking forward to becoming older and quieter.
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I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.
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I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.
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If I have my daughter in the car and they are making me nervous, I'll do whatever I have to do. I keep a whole log. I take pictures of their cars, write down license plate numbers, everything. If they do it again, I can go to the police. I know my rights and, believe me, I will have them arrested. I will stop at nothing.
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I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.
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I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.
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Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.
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If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.
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Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.
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Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.
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People who are criticizing... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.
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My father was really good at having me stand on my own two feet, both financially and philosophically. His whole parenting philosophy was to give my brother and me the skills to be grown-ups and the curiosity to ask the right questions.
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I've always been very independent. Even in relationships, I'm focused on the quality of my life and not enmeshing myself so much with somebody else's experience. But I think there's incredible value in being married.
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In my 20s because I was working on films so much and travelling so much and doing press, I was single with no kids and I think that's the time when not only are you trying on looks, but you're trying on personalities - you're still really forming.
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When I turned 40 I thought, 'I have to really make sure I have time to myself,' because it's very overwhelming to be taking care of so many people.
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