Zoe Lister-Jones: I think "Girls" is pretty brilliant.

As consumers, we can buy organic and non-GMO verified products, so look out for those labels when shopping!

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I always loved writing as a tool of expression.

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The fact is, some of the most respected scientific bodies in the world, including Codex Alimentarius (jointly run by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations), the American Medical Association, the British Medical Association, and the American Public Health Association, have stated that more research needs to be done on GMOs through premarket safety assessments before we can truthfully determine their safety.

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You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.

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There are certain women who are sexually driven and they can compartmentalize it from an emotional attachment.

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For the most part, for me and my friends, there's always an emotional attachment that clouds women's judgment.

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There are emotional ties to family that are connected to the sexual experience for women that are very different than men which does make it harder for women to date and not get hurt.

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I come from a long line of women who like shoes to a fault.

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I think a lot of women, in the way that they might attach emotion to sex, attach emotion to food, in a different way than men.

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My mom's a great cook but I wasn't really allowed a lot of sugar or junk. That has served me well in my life.

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Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.

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I'm everything free. I'm gluten-free. I'm dairy-free. I'm sugar-free. Sometimes I'm yeast-free which really means I eat paper.

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I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.

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There are a lot of great organizations who are fighting for food and environmental safety in this country. The Environmental Working Group, Just Label It, Food Democracy Now, and the Center for Food Safety, to name a few.

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Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

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I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.

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I grew up in a financially insecure place because I knew that my parents were following their dreams which has pros and cons. It was actually my mom who encouraged me to go to acting school because I was really afraid to put all my eggs in that basket.

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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.

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I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

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There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

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