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Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

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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That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
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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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We are the choices we have made.
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Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
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Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
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It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.
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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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I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.
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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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I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that.
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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.
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I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.
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I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
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You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.
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I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
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I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.
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I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.
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I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
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