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" I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. "
Shirley Temple
Always
Service
Listen
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" The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies. "
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" 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. "
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" I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early! "
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" My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. "
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" 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. "
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Meeting
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" I've always been bossy. "
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" Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. "
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" I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. "
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Work
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" 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. "
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" I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad. "
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Salad
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" I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection. "
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Children
Loved
Me
" Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes. "
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Eyes
Said
Me
" 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. "
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Mother
Think
Sad
" If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. "
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Over
" 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. "
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Movies
Nobody
Proud
" I ran for Congress, just once. "
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Just
Congress
Once
" There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world. "
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Us
Who
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Two
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Time
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