Meryl Streep Quotes

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

Meryl Streep

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• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Dream
  • Movies

• I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Very
  • Matters
  • Pass

• The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Enemy
  • Hands
  • Direction

• My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Why

• No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Up
  • Children
  • Money

• I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Fun

• Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Power
  • Master
  • Irresponsible

• Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Dead
  • Republican
  • Voting

• Asimov was the reason why we changed some rules in the SFWA, and I'm not convinced we changed it for the best.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • Why

• It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Drawing

• I definitely see myself as an international musician. When I play, I respect the source of the music, whether it's Cuban, Brazilian or Israeli. I try to bring that to all of the music I play. Music has no borders and no flags.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • Music
  • Respect

• When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

  

  Rita Ora

• Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Training
  • Baseball

• This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

  

  Aristide Briand
  • Connection
  • Search

• I wear a lot of dresses and skirts and more ethereal hippie clothes for the day.

  

  Jenna Dewan
  • Hippie

• People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

  

  Leila Josefowicz
  • People

• Don't watch a lot of television, don't listen to a lot of music. God. What have I been doing with all my time? I'm a bore.

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • Time
  • Music
  • God

• Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and still be happy, comfortable, and serene - if we will even so much as smile.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks
  • Life
  • Great
  • Happy

• Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Believe
  • Small
  • Amazing

• At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Work
  • Relationship

• You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Great
  • Future

• It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

  

  Meryl Streep
  • Amazing
  • Demand
  • Quietly