Meryl Streep Quotes

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

Meryl Streep

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

AttentionPerfectFindAnnoying

The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.

John Fleming

TruthCommunityTruth IsRelief

All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

Andrea Corr

FamilyMeWorldCareLovedNeed

I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

Andie MacDowell

WorkFoodWalkDayYourselfYou

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Joshua Foer

MemoryNeverDialogueTakeNotes

I would have liked Sir Laurence Olivier to ask me to go to the Old Vic and let me play all the roles Judi Dench got.

Anne Reid

MePlayGoAskOldGot

Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.

William Golding

ManWarWorldSocietyBelieveYou

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

PoliticsEndYouUpBeingYour

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

I AmPhilosophyMoralGenuineLeave

My mom is quite religious, and she got the name Tituss from the Bible. It's one of the smallest books in the Bible. I don't know why she added an 's,' but she just did.

Tituss Burgess

MomBibleNameKnowWhyShe

If you're not the establishment candidate, they're going to attack you some ways.

Rick Scott

YouGoingAttackCandidateSome

I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?

Lydia Millet

HouseWhiteAlwaysWhite HouseAny

I'm so excited about my new partnership with the talented and motivated team at S-Curve Records!

Leslie Odom, Jr.

TeamPartnershipNewExcitedRecords

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Meryl Streep