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" I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too. "

Shirley Temple

Career

Wife

Two

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" There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world. "

Shirley Temple

World

Who

" 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. "

" If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. "

" Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention. "

" Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank. "

" I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl. "

" Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N. "

" There's nothing like real love. Nothing. "

Shirley Temple

Nothing

Real

" By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention. "

" Good luck needs no explanation. "

" I had had enough pretend. I wanted to be in the real world. "

" 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. "

" Many people consider me an old friend. "

" Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics. "

" I ran for Congress, just once. "

" At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again. "

" We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought. "

" I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. "

" Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black. "

" 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. "

" When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since. "

" My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover. "

" Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well. "

Shirley Temple

Stories

Newspaper

" I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother... and diplomatic services for the United States government. "

" Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.' "

" Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes. "

Shirley Temple

Eyes

Said

" When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it off by saying, 'Your work makes them happy.' She never let it go to my head. "