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" My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. "
Meryl Streep
Believe
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" It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. "
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" I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things. "
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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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" How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. "
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" Expensive clothes are a waste of money. "
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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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" Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored. "
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