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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Mary Louise Streep
Meryl Louise Streep
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One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.
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First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me.
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Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
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I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.
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I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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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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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
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When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.
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You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.
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She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.
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The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.
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I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I've worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.
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And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.
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I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.
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The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.
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It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
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Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.
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I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.
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When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.
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