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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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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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We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.
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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
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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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Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
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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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First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me.
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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
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Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
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Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.
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In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.
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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
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Guard your good mood.
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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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For me, clothes are kind of character I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
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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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Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
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If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
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