Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.

Patricia Arquette

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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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Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.

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I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

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When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.

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Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

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We all have our own little thing, I think.

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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

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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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There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.

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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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Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.

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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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Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.

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It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.

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There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's a price to be paid for that when you're expected to be the full-time caretaker and you're expected to be the full-time breadwinner.

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Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

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I'm the only nerd with a piece of paper.

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

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grew-up real hippie

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

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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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