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Mara Wilson

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

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It's a little bit annoying, because it feels like everybody's taking the power away from you. Everybody's taking your adult life away from you. On one level, I used to resent it.

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People think I'm smarter than I am.

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I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.

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There's a reason that girls cut off all their Barbie doll's hair and dye it and do things like that. I destroyed my Barbie dolls, and I know other girls did as well. And that's kind of the way they see kids movies and child actors in kids movies, as something that you've moved on from. It's babyish.

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People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.

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