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Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

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
Film Actress
Politician
Singer
Television Actor
Santa Monica
California
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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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Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
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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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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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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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I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
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Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.
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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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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 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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There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.
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I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.
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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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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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I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.
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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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Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.
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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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