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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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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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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.
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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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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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I'm trying to work on my Spanish.
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I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.
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We are the choices we have made.
