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Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Mary Louise Streep
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I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.
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We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
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Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
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Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.
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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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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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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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I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
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America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
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Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
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I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.
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Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.
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Being an actor lets me be a million different things.
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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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Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.
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Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath.
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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
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