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Many people consider me an old friend.
Shirley Temple
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Shirley Temple
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 23
Died: 2014
Died: February 10
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Child Actor
Dancer
Diplomat
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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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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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Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.
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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 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 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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If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.
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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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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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I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.
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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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Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
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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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[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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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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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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Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.
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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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