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I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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Jamie Lee Curtis
Age: 65
Born: 1958
Born: November 22
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Once we get out into a kind of an open world, we really do learn about ourselves and for me it's a lesson in discovering yourself, discovering your inner resources and then literally, in the movie, finding your voice.
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So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.
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I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
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If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
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And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.
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I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.
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The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting it's that way in marriages.
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My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.
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I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.
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I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.
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I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.
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We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.
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Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.
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The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?
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Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.
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My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.
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I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, Wow, this was awesome!
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My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.
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The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.
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