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" I think your self emerges more clearly over time. "
Meryl Streep
Your
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Self
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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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" 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. "
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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 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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" When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it. "
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" Expensive clothes are a waste of money. "
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" I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. "
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" I can't stand most things that I see. "
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" I'm all over the place. "
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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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" There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. "
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Always
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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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Find
Perfect
" There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. "
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Improbable
Things
" Instant gratification is not soon enough. "
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Gratification
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Instant
" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "
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Great
Human
Empathy
" Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference. "
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People
" 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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" I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. "
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Clothes
Less
" The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed. "
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Were
Where
" Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. "
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Day
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" You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try. "
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Try
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" I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion. "
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Hope
Best
" I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. "
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" All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. "
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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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" There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. "
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" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "
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" My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. "
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