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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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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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The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.
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On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.
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There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.
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To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.
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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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There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.
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It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
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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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I've gotten crankier in my old age.
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I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
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One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.
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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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He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.
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The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.
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Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
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I don't do like diva trips and stuff.
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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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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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