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My childhood summers in Trenton, Ohio, and starting work at Warner Bros.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 1995 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Either pottering around on my own or performing, so I don’t know what kind of person that makes me.
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At college: missing lectures to rehearse plays and go daytime drinking. Oh, and the baby’s birth.
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Walking in the rainforest with my mother, back in Nicaragua. She loved it, and inspired me to devote much of my life to protecting the environment.
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