“I’m not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.”

Interview in autostraddle.com (5 March 2010) http://www.autostraddle.com/jennifer-beals-photographs-the-l-word-cast-is-perfect-the-autostraddle-interview-35670/2/.

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