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" Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. "
Meryl Streep
Every Day
Day
Me
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" If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. "
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" Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot. "
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" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "
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" My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. "
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" The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed. "
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" Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done. "
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Done
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" I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do. "
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" It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. "
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" I need to go where people are serious about acting. "
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" Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. "
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Remember
Children
Child
" I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. "
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How
" Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. "
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Smart
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" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "
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Great
Human
Empathy
" I'm all over the place. "
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Place
Over
" I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school. "
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Weekend
Night
Gone
" It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper. "
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You
Yourself
" Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor. "
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Mother
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" I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s. "
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Sure
Never
" I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. "
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Work
Costume
Feelings
" Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it. "
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Men
Wrong
Feel
" Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love. "
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Fight
Yourself
Service
" I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. "
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Imagine
Love
Work
" You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially. "
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Falling
Fall
" For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. "
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Character
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" America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. "
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Age
America
Life
" I think your self emerges more clearly over time. "
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" It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. "
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Earth
Far
Round
" Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person. "
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" You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. "
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Doing
Keep Going
You