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— George Eliot"It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow."
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I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.
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