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I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
Shirley Temple
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Shirley Temple
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 23
Died: 2014
Died: February 10
Actor
Child Actor
Dancer
Diplomat
Film Actor
Film Actress
Politician
Singer
Television Actor
Santa Monica
California
Shirley Temple Black
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I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.
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When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
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One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.
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Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.
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Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.
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By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.
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Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.
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I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.
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Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.
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I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
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We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.
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[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.
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We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'.
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Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.
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I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
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There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.
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Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
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I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.
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