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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

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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The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.
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The work will stand, no matter what.
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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.
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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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They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.
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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.
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Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
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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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