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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
Character Actor
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I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.
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You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
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I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.
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One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.
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I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.
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Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
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no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.
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Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.
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...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.
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You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.
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In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.
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Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.
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The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.
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The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
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I don't feel competitive.
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I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
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Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.
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In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.
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We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
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I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.
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