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Shirley MacLaine

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"I've gotten crankier in my old age."

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"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him."

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"I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty."

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"I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that."

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"Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself."

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"Women love working together. That's my experience anyway."

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"I've gotten crankier in my old age."

-Shirley MacLaine

"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him."

-Shirley MacLaine

"I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty."

-Shirley MacLaine

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"I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that."

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"Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself."

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"Women love working together. That's my experience anyway."

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"The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime."

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"When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are."

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"If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters."

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"I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem."

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"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

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"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

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"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

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"I never would have given up my work to stay home."

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"When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are."

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"The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime."

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"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."

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"Things are done according to money these days."

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"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."

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"If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters."

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"It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics."

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"I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."

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"We need proof in our society."

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"Well, success does not mean doing well."

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"Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth."

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"Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth."

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"I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it."

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"Women love working together. That's my experience anyway."

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"Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all."

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