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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.

Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.
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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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The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.
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Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
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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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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 first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.
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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 get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
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The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
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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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Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
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It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
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You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting.
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Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.
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Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
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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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On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies.
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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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While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
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