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Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
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
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Film Actress
Politician
Singer
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Santa Monica
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More quotes by Shirley Temple
[Campaign sign when running for Congress in 1967:] Vote for me or I will hold my breath until I turn blue.
Shirley Temple
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.
Shirley Temple
When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
Shirley Temple
Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.
Shirley Temple
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.
Shirley Temple
If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.
Shirley Temple
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.
Shirley Temple
I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.
Shirley Temple
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.
Shirley Temple
I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
Shirley Temple
By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.
Shirley Temple
Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.
Shirley Temple
Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
Shirley Temple
Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.
Shirley Temple
I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
Shirley Temple
Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.
Shirley Temple
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.
Shirley Temple
Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.
Shirley Temple
There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.
Shirley Temple
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'.
Shirley Temple
