There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement

Anne Hathaway

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You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

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I live my life with love. I live my life with compassion. I live my life hoping the best for absolutely everyone, no matter how they feel about me. And when you live that way, it's amazing how beautiful every day can be.

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Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

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A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

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But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

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A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

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I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

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I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

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I don't take anything for granted. I've been given extraordinary opportunities, I've also fought for extraordinary opportunities. So I don't believe you're ever just there in this golden moment. You probably always have to remind people that you're there, that you have something to offer, maybe something beyond what they could imagine for you.

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Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

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Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

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Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.

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When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

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If young kids choose to have me as a role model...what I put out there is that it's not a perfect life and it's okay to make mistakes.

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My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it.

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We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

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I think the thing that I have learned is that a bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience, but you have to be very honest at every single stage with the person about how you've been hurt, and hopefully they will be supportive about whatever it is that you have to go through. Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

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Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

Anne Hathaway

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If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.

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I'm a wear-my-heart-on-my-sleeve, fall in love-at-first-sight and go with it sort of girl. It's all about having fun with someone and learning how to communicate with someone, in a way that you enjoy.

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