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Shirley Maclaine Inspirational Quotes (101)

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If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
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On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life I have pictures from 13,000 lives.
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My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.
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I've gotten crankier in my old age.
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no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.
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I believe in UFOs, I believe in extraterrestrials, and I believe in angels. And maybe they'll protect all of us.
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Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.
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God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.
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I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
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All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.
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The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.
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He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.
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I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.
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Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
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I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.
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If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
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I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
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You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
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I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.
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In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.
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I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.
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You have to surrender to the energy above and below.
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An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
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Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.
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