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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.' "

" 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. "

" I've always been bossy. "

" 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.' "

" Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. "

" I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. "

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

" 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. "

" I ran for Congress, just once. "

" Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. "

" Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle. "

" 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. "

" I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. "

" 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. "

" I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Good luck needs no explanation. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies. "

" I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain. "

" I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection. "

" Many people consider me an old friend. "