Meryl Streep Quotes
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
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I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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Let's treat this country first and foremost.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
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We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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Innovation is the calling card of the future.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We can’t seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
