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" Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. "
Meryl Streep
Motherhood
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" I need to go where people are serious about acting. "
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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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" I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. "
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" Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. "
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" The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves. "
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" I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. "
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" Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it. "
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" I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. "
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" The work will stand, no matter what. "
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" I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really. "
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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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" I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it. "
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" Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love. "
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" Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot. "
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" I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. "
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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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" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "
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" Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. "
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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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" People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different. "
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" Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word. "
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" It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. "
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