Meryl Streep Quotes

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

Meryl Streep

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Feeling
  • Light
  • Door

• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.

  

  Laura Wade
  • You
  • Old
  • Skills

• I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Trying
  • I Can
  • Skills

• We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Women
  • Love

• Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Practice

• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Window
  • Skills
  • Once

• As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Done
  • Act
  • Skills

• Continue to study and learn new skills.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Study
  • Learn
  • Skills

• Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Ambition
  • Sense

• A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Inspiration
  • Valuable
  • Devotion

• When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Faster

• True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Paid
  • Pretending

• There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Views
  • Skills
  • Point Of View

• I don't see how you're going to get value out of this player who, in my estimation, is one of the most valuable players in the league. Of course, I estimate him perhaps higher than other people. I think he's a terrific player. He adds a big dimension in every game he plays in.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • People
  • Game
  • Value

• What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Walking
  • Situation
  • Pretending

• Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.

  

  Albert Venn Dicey
  • Freedom

• If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Ifs

• My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his friends say at school.

  

  Vijay
  • School
  • Friends
  • Son

• Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Growth
  • Achievement
  • Students

• Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

  

  Meryl Streep
  • Skills
  • Valuable
  • Pretending