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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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" 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

Three

Blessed

Government

" 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. "

" I ran for Congress, just once. "

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

Shirley Temple

Real

School

" Good luck needs no explanation. "

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

" I've always been bossy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. "

" 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

" Many people consider me an old friend. "

" I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. "

" I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain. "

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

" 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'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act. "

" 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. "

" Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black. "

" Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N. "

" Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank. "

" One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.' "

" 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. "

Shirley Temple

Stories

Newspaper

" 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. "

" Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes. "

Shirley Temple

Eyes

Said