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When you're a performer, you ...

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 43 quotes

Biographies of me have usuall...

Biographies of me have usually been compiled from old newspaper clips, untruthful publicity stories, and reminiscences of people who claim to have known me well.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

By the time I got to the Fox ...

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.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

Good luck needs no explanatio...

Good luck needs no explanation.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

I have one piece of advice fo...

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

I guess I was an early method...

I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

Men say, 'I've loved you sinc...

Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.'

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

Shirley Temple doesn't hurt S...

Shirley Temple doesn't hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She is thought of as a friend - which I am!

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

I loved what I did. I remembe...

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

My role models were Amelia Ea...

My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

Nothing crushes freedom as su...

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

I stopped believing in Santa ...

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.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

At the end of the Depression,...

At the end of the Depression, people were perhaps looking for something to cheer themselves up. They fell in love with a dog and a little girl. It won't happen again.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

I've led three lives: the act...

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

I wanted to be the first girl...

I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write in my yearbook under each senior's picture, 'married' or 'engaged.' I had marriage on the brain.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

The idea of being with my pee...

The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

I've been blessed with three ...

I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and grandmother... and diplomatic services for the United States government.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

When I saw work shoes, I woul...

When I saw work shoes, I would know that that person worked. I was very worried about people with shiny, pointed shoes as a child.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

I'm not too proud of the movi...

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.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

Dr. Kissinger was a former ch...

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

Shirley Temple 43 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....