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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

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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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
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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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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
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