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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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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If you are a gladiator, a fighter in this sport, in life you can be the same.
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I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.
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Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.
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If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.
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I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!
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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
