I was always at a certain safe remove, I think, even no matter how much I might have loved a person,

I was at some sort of safe ground, still with a foot on my own island.

This is death, sex, and money.

This country, you've got to make them money first.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

Are you thinking about sex?

And need to talk about more.

My relationship with death remains the same, strongly against it.

I'm Anna Sale.

As an actress, Holland Taylor often plays patrician self-assured characters who keep all the other

cooks in line, a judge on Allie McBeal and the practice.

I take pride in adhering strictly to ethical obligations.

An ad exec on bosom buddies, the mother on two and a half men, a professor in

legally blonde. The law leaves much room for interpretation, but very little for self-doubt.

Her characters often don't need anyone else, and they tend to keep other people at arm's length.

That's an impulse that Holland herself is trying to shake at 72 years old. I'm finally wised up to the fact that I haven't

got that much longer, and I would like to have a more fulsome experience of relationships

in life than I have.

And I'm lucky I have the opportunity to.

Very lucky I have the opportunity to.

Holland is known for keeping her private life private.

But she agreed to meet me at her friend's apartment in Manhattan.

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