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I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.

Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
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You can't take a crash course in serenity.
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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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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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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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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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To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.
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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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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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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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On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.
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My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.
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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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Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
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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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There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.
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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 don't feel competitive.
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