Meryl Streep Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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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.
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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.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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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.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
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I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
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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?'
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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.
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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.
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In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over.
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We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
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I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else.
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That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
