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Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
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When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
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I don't feel competitive.
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I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.
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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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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
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Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.
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I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.
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It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
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I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.
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An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
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Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.
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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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We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.
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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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I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
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I'm not sure I'll come back to this planet. I may come back to another one.
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I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.
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On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life I have pictures from 13,000 lives.
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It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.
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I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.
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