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In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
Shirley Temple
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Shirley Temple
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 23
Died: 2014
Died: February 10
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By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.
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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'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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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 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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If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.
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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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[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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Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.
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I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.
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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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Many people consider me an old friend.
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Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.
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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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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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Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.
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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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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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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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