Meryl Streep Quotes
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Fashion should be playful.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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I'll never put my memoirs in print.
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An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
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Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
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It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.
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People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.
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There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.
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You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you.
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I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.
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The self is made, not given.
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The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
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It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
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We are the choices we have made.
