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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
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Politician
Singer
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Many people consider me an old friend.
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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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By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.
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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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We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.
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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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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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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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Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
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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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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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Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.
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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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Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many forty-five-year old men with the mentalities of six-year-olds, and my feeling is that they should not see such pictures, either.
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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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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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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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In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
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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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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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