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Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

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Sally Field
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 6
Actor
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Pasadena
California
Sally Margaret Field
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I find that I'm not as worried anymore about what other people think. That's a comfortable place to be. And I'm starting to let go of the feeling that I need to push myself to do things I don't want to do - an impulse that has always been linked to the feeling that I'm not enough.
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