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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
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We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
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There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
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The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.
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When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.
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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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I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
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I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.
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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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Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.
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When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.
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