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I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.

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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
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Santa Monica
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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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Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world and I detest censorship.
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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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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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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 wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman. It was so intense that the studio got the prop department to make a little pie wagon and they filled it with tarts. I wheeled it around the set and sold them to the crew. I was about eight years old. I always sold out and I didn't have to pay for them. It was a great deal.
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Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.
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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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Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.
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My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.
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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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If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.
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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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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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I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.
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I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
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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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