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There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don't have time for hate or negativity in my life. There's no room for it.

- Reese Witherspoon

My Life, Sometimes, Very, Laying

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

- Reese Witherspoon

Love, Potatoes, Ritual, Comfort Food

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids - it's their favorite dinner.

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Own, Date, Ryan, Hamburger

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

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Marriage, Everybody, I Think, Taking Time

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

- Reese Witherspoon

Been, Before, Inform, Johnny

Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular, embarrassing old mom.

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Old, Always, Reminder, Realizing

I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said 'ain't,' or something like that.

- Reese Witherspoon

Blind, Date, Correct, Tennessee

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

- Reese Witherspoon

Medical, Both My Parents, Believed

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

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Role, Violent, Freeway, Wholeheartedly

Ryan and I didn't grow up like this at all, with this much attention. We'll just try to keep their feet on the ground and raise them with the values we were raised with.

- Reese Witherspoon

Feet, Grow, Ryan, Much Attention

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

- Reese Witherspoon

Determination, Kind, Feel, Right Kind

I think it's really interesting to play a woman who can articulate that she isn't ready to have a family and isn't even sure if she wants a family. I have a lot of friends like that. But obviously, that's not me.

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Play, Think, I Think, Articulate

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

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Believe, Think, Wanting, Perfection

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.

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Girl, Always, Obsessed, None

I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!

- Reese Witherspoon

Mom, Thought, Disease, Category

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

- Reese Witherspoon

Role, Like, Another, Prop

I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don't wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.

- Reese Witherspoon

Love, More, Hang, Best Part

I don't know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn't had my girlfriends.

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My Life, Had, Many, Girlfriends

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

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Use, Particularly, Bothers, Table

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

- Reese Witherspoon

Love, Always, Consequence, Fully

I read while the kids play. I can see them from the kitchen window. And I'm a fast reader.

- Reese Witherspoon

Play, Read, Reader, Kitchen

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

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Car, Lovely, Reasonable, Extravagant

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

- Reese Witherspoon

Strong, Deal, Lives, Represent

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

- Reese Witherspoon

Parent, Think, Realised, Stressful

It's fun chasing boys, especially when you're young, but I think it takes time and life experience to notice the other boys.

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Think, Other, I Think, Notice

I played a lawyer in a movie, so, many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.

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Think, I Think, Arrested, Lawyer

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

- Reese Witherspoon

My Life, About, Half, Energy

That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I'm missing something important at my daughter's school which makes me feel sick inside. It's a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making.

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Husband, Sick, Feel, Missing

My ex-husband is very involved in raising our beautiful children. We're very lucky because we both grew up in working families in middle America. We're on the same page that way.

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Lucky, Very, Raising, Same Page

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.

- Reese Witherspoon

Woman, Play, Shared, June

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