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" Expensive clothes are a waste of money. "
Meryl Streep
Money
Clothes
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" I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it. "
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" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "
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" Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. "
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" 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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" Instant gratification is not soon enough. "
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" I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.' "
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" Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it. "
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" We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8. "
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" Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength? "
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" I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. "
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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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Were
Where
" You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try. "
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Us
Try
You
" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "
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Great
Human
Empathy
" I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. "
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You
" People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different. "
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People
Women
Value
" 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
" The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. "
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Parenting
" Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time. "
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World
Time
Everything
" Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. "
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Birth
Think
Personality
" You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. "
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You
Win
Had
" I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine. "
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Where
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" Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. "
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Decision
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Out
" 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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" The work will stand, no matter what. "
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" I think your self emerges more clearly over time. "
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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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" I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance. "
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Balance
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" My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. "
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" All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. "
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