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bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.
Shirley MacLaine
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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
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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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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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You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.
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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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Usually I'm right, by the way - so never mind all the other.
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Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
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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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Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
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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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The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.
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Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.
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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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