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Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.


Meryl Streep

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JOHN PETERS Meryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be.
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ED BEGLEY, JR. I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE O Brother, Where Art Thou? I was really impressed hearing Meryl Streep belting out these songs.
BOB BERNEY I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever...
PAUL MCCARTNEY If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music ...
CARA DELEVINGNE I never thought I would work with Meryl Streep. I also love Cate Blanchett.
JANE LYNCH I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep....
RAQUEL WELCH Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing...
JOSHUA SCHACHTER I really am having the time of my life. But as far as my future goes, I want to stretch myself as an...
TOM HOLLAND Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstandin...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I...
JOAN RIVERS Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN I remember when Meryl Streep did an ad for American Express, the press harassed her.
ANDIE MACDOWELL I love Madhuri Dixit, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Sandra Bullock.
POOJA HEGDE I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on se...
AIDAN QUINN I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like...
JACKI WEAVER And then they went after Meryl Streep. But (Bernadette) is amazing.
MEGAN MULLALLY There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Dia...
BLAKE LIVELY This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing...
TARON EGERTON It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at w...
AGYNESS DEYN Watch every single decision you make, because every decision you take! IT'S TRACING Your VERY OWN LI...
PHILIP T. M. I would love to have a drink with Meryl Streep or Prince. Those are my top two people I would love t...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thou...
JULIA VOTH Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY Every decision you make—every decision—is not a decision about what to do. It’s a decision abo...
NEALE DONALD WALSCH What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what ...
JOHN GRANT She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.
BAILEE MADISON As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody...
PENELOPE CRUZ I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is m...
JOEL PARKINSON I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a ve...
AUDREY HEPBURN I know what you're doing, though."

"I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I see...
GRACE BURROWES Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin...
NELLIE CHRISTINE For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can...
BILLY EICHNER When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... Dakota is as good as Meryl Streep. She's as good as Goldie Hawn. There are things about Goldie as an...
KURT RUSSELL If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER Meryl Streep is my favorite actor. She is so classy and a brilliant actress. Her performance in '...
BRITTANY CURRAN Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When I know what to do, everything is so easy.
LORRIN L. LEE Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's ...
DAPHNE ZUNIGA Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's somethin...
TOM DOUGLAS Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like ...
CATHERINE MARY STEWART No matter what I do, how much money I make, where I live, or what kind of car I drive, the stuff I s...
ROB DYRDEK I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of differen...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE Reviewing material from another board? What are we going to do, make a decision on this? Why are we ...
ERIC OLIVER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD ... I am you... what am I going to do?"

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DEYTH BANGER Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
JUDY COLLINS I knew what his aspirations were and I had to make a decision in my mind: 'Do I worry about what his...
GARY WATERS I think you need to hit rock bottom before you make a decision [about] what you're going to do in th...
COURTNEY LOVE Harassment is the background radiation of my life. It is a factor in every decision I make. Any time...
ANITA SARKEESIAN Just do what you love. This is what I am doing.
ANGELIQUE KERBER I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore wo...
QUENTIN TARANTINO How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. My dream is to work with people like Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Christian Bale and Cate Blanc...
AJ MICHALKA Life is what you make of it.
You have to decide what you want in life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep fur...
BETH BEHRS I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting...
TAYLOR SWIFT There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really want...
WHOOPI GOLDBERG Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa...
AYN RAND Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep - I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same ...
MORAN ATIAS I don't want there to be any confusion about this. My love and dedication is 100 percent with baseba...
BEN BROUSSARD I wrote down what I did that week: what I ate and drank, what I did before and after I played. Every...
MICHAEL CAMPBELL And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans w...
TED CRUZ When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute...
HAYLEY KIYOKO I was leery, skeptical, but the more I thought about it, the title says 'world' champion, ... What m...
LAMON BREWSTER A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably wh...
GERRY SCHWARTZ As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that ...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Most people would be debating in their heads what to do in a year like this. It is all about prepara...
JUSTIN GATLIN I know im awesome because if i was superman the first thing i would do is build a suit made out of l...
NATHAN ELMO MELO My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and p...
SHARON LAWRENCE The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON I love you because of you. Because of every single thing about you.
COLLEEN HOOVER I have lots of ambitions. I'd love to do theatre. I'd like to be in 'Tea With Mussolini ...
MIRANDA HART Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwitting...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different...
CARA DELEVINGNE I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe...
T. C. BOYLE I think God has helped me, ... because I pray every single night to come to the ballpark, not worryi...
CARLOS BELTRAN Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we...
BEN SHAPIRO Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. A...
JEFF DANIELS Being able to do what you wish is the best thing in the world!
SHIRO AMANO You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to M...
JOHN WELLS When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stor...
MICHAEL FOREMAN Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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