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Shirley MacLaine
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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
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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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When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
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You can't take a crash course in serenity.
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I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.
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I don't do like diva trips and stuff.
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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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I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.
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Usually I'm right, by the way - so never mind all the other.
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Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.
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I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.
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To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.
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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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The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
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There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.
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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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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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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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Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
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