It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters. (Bryce Dallas Howard)

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

Bryce Dallas Howard

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