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We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.
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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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
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The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.
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I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.
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I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
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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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I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
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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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I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
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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 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.
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Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
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It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the Devil Wears Prada that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.
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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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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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One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.
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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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It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.
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I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and Spin And Marty. The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.
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You have to embrace getting older.
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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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