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" Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. "
Meryl Streep
Birth
Think
Personality
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" Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength? "
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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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" You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially. "
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" My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. "
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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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" 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 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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" My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. "
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" Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living. "
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" Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. "
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Single
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" I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life. "
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Movies
I Can
" There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. "
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Improbable
Things
" There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. "
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Road
Always
Family
" You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try. "
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" I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. "
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" America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. "
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Age
America
Life
" Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored. "
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Ridicule
Being Ignored
Face
" I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. "
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Work
Early
Looks
" 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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" 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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Busy
People
Career
" 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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" There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. "
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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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" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "
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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'm all over the place. "
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" I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. "
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