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I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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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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Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
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Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.
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We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
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Instant gratification is not soon enough.
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
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I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.
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There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.
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Being an actor lets me be a million different things.
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If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
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No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.
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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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One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.
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Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.
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I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
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Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.
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Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Meryl Streep
And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.
Meryl Streep
