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I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.
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
Shirley Temple Black
Couldn
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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.
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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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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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In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
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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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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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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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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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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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Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.
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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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[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 got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.
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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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Many people consider me an old friend.
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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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Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.
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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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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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