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" I want to feel my life while I'm in it. "
Meryl Streep
My Life
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" I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. "
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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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" I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally. "
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" Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. "
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