My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that … - Meryl Streep

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You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

Meryl Streep

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

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I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

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