"I've thought a lot about the power of……" — Meryl Streep
"I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain."
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128 Quotes by Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep has 128 quotes on this site.
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Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who…
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
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I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a…
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I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
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Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought…
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It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have,…
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They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious…
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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
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Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics,
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Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we…
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First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play…
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
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The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their…
— Jeff Bezos
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am.…
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was…
— Elayne Boosler
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The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot…
— Alton Brown
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