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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.

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
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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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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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By the time I was 4, I knew how to hit my mark.
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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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I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service.
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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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In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
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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 I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
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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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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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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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[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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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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Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.
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Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.
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Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
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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'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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