Meryl Streep Quotes
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
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I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well, I'm going to be the heavy-metal comedian.'
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Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels.
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It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism.
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.
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I look at goals, like, what do I want to do and where do I want to see myself. What position to I want to be in going forward.
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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
