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Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
Shirley MacLaine
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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
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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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All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.
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Things are done according to money these days.
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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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I can't give up my own identity.
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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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I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.
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Movie makers now choose profit over vision.
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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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If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
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One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.
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I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.
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The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.
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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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Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
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The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.
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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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Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.
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I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
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I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.
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