Meryl Streep Quotes

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Meryl Streep

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• I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Start

• I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Kind
  • Cool
  • Obsessed

• I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Live
  • Want
  • Chance

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Real
  • Think

• People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Small
  • Ideas

• I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Experience
  • Worry
  • Go

• 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Change

• You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Support
  • Woman
  • Choice

• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Action

• Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

  

  Harper Lee

• Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • True
  • Nature

• It’s hard to be ignored When I look at you, you look so bored My baby, my darling, I’ve been taking a beating…Well alright (well alright) It’s okay (it’s okay) We all get the slip sometimes every day I’ll just keep it to myself in the sun In the sun

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Baby
  • Sun
  • Bored

• The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Trying

• I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem... We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Faith
  • Law

• I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who were coming together for this one common goal of beating a rival team.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Different
  • Together
  • Team

• My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Work
  • She
  • Mom

• In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard.

  

  John Grisham
  • Time
  • House
  • King

• I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published.

  

  T. J. Stiles
  • Book

• I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Heart
  • Attitude

• That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

  

  Meryl Streep
  • Heart
  • Simple
  • Secret