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" Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. "
Shirley Temple
Sparkle
Human
Adoration
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" Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. "
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" I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection. "
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" When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child. "
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" I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it? "
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" The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields. "
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" I've always been bossy. "
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" There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world. "
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" Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention. "
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" Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N. "
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" I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. "
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" When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since. "
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Getting
Been
" I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. "
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" I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl. "
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" The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies. "
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" When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head. "
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" I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work. "
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Age
" I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world. "
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" I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad. "
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Salad
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" If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. "
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Again
Working
Over
" I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. "
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Work
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" We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. "
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Which
Thought
" I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail. "
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" I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too. "
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" I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry. "
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" Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child. "
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