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" Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well. "

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" At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again. "

Shirley Temple

Dog

Depression

Love

" 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. "

" Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. "

Shirley Temple

World

Real

" My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover. "

" I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first. "

" By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention. "

" I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. "

" Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. "

" I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother... and diplomatic services for the United States government. "

" Shirley Temple doesn't hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She is thought of as a friend - which I am! "

" Good luck needs no explanation. "

" 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. "

" I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early! "

" 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. "

" Many people consider me an old friend. "

" There's nothing like real love. Nothing. "

Shirley Temple

Nothing

Real

" When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too. "

" Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. "

" 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. "

" I ran for Congress, just once. "

" There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world. "

Shirley Temple

World

Who

" The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies. "

Shirley Temple

Real

School

" When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since. "

" Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.' "

" I've always been bossy. "

" 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. "