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I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.
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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