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The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky 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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We are the choices we have made.
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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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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'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.
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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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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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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.
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When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.
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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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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
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Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
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It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.
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I love food and I love sex.
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You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.
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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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I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.
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One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.
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I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
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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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