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" I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. "
Meryl Streep
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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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" I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things. "
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" It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. "
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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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" Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. "
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" I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it. "
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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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" For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. "
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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'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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" I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older. "
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" I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words. "
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" 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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" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "
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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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