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Shirley Temple
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Shirley Temple
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 23
Died: 2014
Died: February 10
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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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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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I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.
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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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I've been so blessed. If someone asked me whom I would choose to be if I could come back in another life, I would have to say Shirley Temple Black. I cannot think of a more interesting life to ask for.
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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 don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.
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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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We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.
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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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If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.
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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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Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
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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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There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.
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I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
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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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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 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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In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
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