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I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
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You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
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You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.
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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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I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.
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When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.
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True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
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The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.
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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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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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Guard your good mood.
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Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite thing you've ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn't feel the story through her body.
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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 think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.
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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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It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
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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 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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