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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

Patricia Arquette

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Patricia Arquette
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: April 8
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The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.
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Of course, a lot of courtship and dating is about sexual attraction. If you're an attractive person, you have that sort of interest from people, whether you cater to it or not, but when you get older, that's not really the leading thing anymore.
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As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.
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I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.
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There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.
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To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!
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Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.
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