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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.


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NATALIE ZEA The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categ...
NATALIE ZEA There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can'...
NATALIE ZEA Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to see...
NATALIE ZEA My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relation...
NATALIE ZEA I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even ...
NATALIE ZEA I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come b...
NATALIE ZEA There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I...
NATALIE ZEA When I get married it will be for keeps.
NATALIE WOOD A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
NATALIE WOOD I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish an...
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