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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.
Shirley Temple
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Shirley Temple
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 23
Died: 2014
Died: February 10
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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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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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We would have to invent the U.N if we did not have it which is not an original thought.
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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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[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 don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.
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Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.
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When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
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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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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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Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.
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I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
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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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In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
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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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Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.
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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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