American - Actress | September 9, 1983 -
Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
Zoe Kazan
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I want to derive pleasure from this planet and put pleasure back into it.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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I encourage everyone to read James Baldwin and Malcom X and Aldous Huxley. To read Primo Levi. To read 'Silent Spring.' To read Toni Morrison. To read Zora Neale Hurston.
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Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.
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It was very hard for me to come back to a place of feeling normal about food and about my body. And then, when I came to the other side of it, it felt like something was gone. An exorcism. I still experience the same chemical swings and moods and pain, but I'm much better at dealing with it than I was at 18.
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I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I never wanted to be a playwright.
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And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
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