Word: bigs
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Taking on the beloved Bella is a big responsibility. You're always going to have people who believe you're the best Bella and people who still hate the casting. Is that difficult? It's not difficult when it's totally concerning the movie. That I still get, and I completely understand. I watch Twilight and New Moon and I think, Gosh, there are a million lines that I wish were in it that aren't. You can't be expected to capture the book - what you are expected to do is capture an essence. That's always subjective...
...Twilight life like living in a bubble? And if so, tell us about your bubble. I wouldn't call them concessions, but there are alterations - and only fleeting alterations - that you need to make. Right now New Moon is coming out, and it's a big deal. I'm in Los Angeles promoting it, and everybody knows where I'm going to be. So right now it's the most intense time. But it already feels like it's going away almost as I speak. What's my life like? I'm sort of a homebody anyway...
...finished the Joan Jett movie, and you had to get your hair cut, which was kind of a big deal in certain quarters. How hard was it to convince the producers to get it done, and is that an example of the controls that are on you as a Twilight franchise player? Well, luckily I am no one's property, and free will is exercised greatly. I knew I could still play Bella and not have to feel the sweat running down my head to make me feel I was doing something real. I knew I could wear...
Such "patent trolls" or "patent extortionists", as they've come to be known, have become a big headache, especially for technology companies...
...course, the ideas of John Maynard Keynes are also behind the auto-industry bailouts, new financial regulations and public investments pushed by the Obama Administration. The difference is both in the details and the big picture: not only do specific national economic policies in Europe tend to still trail those of the U.S. on the free-market curve, but there is also a lingering ingrained suspicion about capitalism itself...