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Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple
American Actress
Born: Apr 23, 1928
Died: Feb 10, 2014
Me Mother People Work Would You
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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
Christmas Me Mother Took See He Him Department Department Store Six Stopped Autograph Store Asked Santa Santa Claus Believing
Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble. Shirley Temple
Time Money Trouble Time Is Money Means Wasted Wasted Time
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
Love Depression People Dog Girl Looking Something Perhaps Fell Cheer Were End Up Happen Again Little Little Girl Themselves
One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.' Shirley Temple
Me You Thought Shall Remain Executive Himself Said Were His Office Famous Movie Producer Who Exposed
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention. Shirley Temple
Politics Science Innocent Past Every Ways Distortion Thousand Colors Make-Believe Intention Us Bold
I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. Shirley Temple
Service Would More Always Listen Anyone Public Available Who Public Service
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
Sad Mother Mind Stage Think Guess Would Minute Could Blank Part Cry Make Sound Go Method Quiet Just Anything Actress Early
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
Politics You Too Please Performer Audience Large Large Audience
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
Time First Pay Pay Attention Mark Memorize Studio Knew Attention Major Got How Lines Hit Film Fox By The Time
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
Class Marriage Girl First Picture Seventh Married Be The First Write Had Yearbook Brain Get Grade Get Married Senior Wanted Engaged Used Each
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
Me Remember Mother Affection Would Scene Cruel Cry Make Mothers Pinch Did Children Loved Them Who
I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work. Shirley Temple
Work Love Age Thought Young Everybody Seemed Absolutely Normal Very Working Starting
If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't change anything. I probably would have paid for the pleasure of working. Shirley Temple
Change Pleasure Would Had Over Anything Again Working Paid
I remember telling President Carter on his first night, when I was escorting people around, that I was interested in continuing public service and that politics didn't matter - but it does, doesn't it? Shirley Temple
Politics Service People Remember Matter First President Telling Carter Around Does Continuing His Interested Public Public Service Night
I did an imitation of him to make the crew laugh. To my shock, there was Cary Grant behind me. He got very angry. I was sent all the way from RKO to David Selznick's office and was told not to do it anymore. I thought to myself, 'I must have been pretty good to make him that angry.' Shirley Temple
Myself Good Angry Me Thought Crew Imitation Way Laugh Must Pretty Cary Grant Pretty Good David He Make Him Got Been Very Shock Office Did Behind Anymore Sent Grant
There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world. Shirley Temple
Peace World Us Should Who Many Bring Position
Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank. Shirley Temple
Freedom Nothing Crushes Tank Substantially
Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple
Black Doors Temple Opens Shirley
Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe. Shirley Temple
World Long More Became Make-Believe Real Than The Real World Real World Interested
I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we wanted a 20th country to join. They asked for a volunteer to go to Prague to get Czechoslovakia to do it, and my hand always goes up first. Shirley Temple
First Country Meeting Join Federation Volunteer Always Prague Go August Hand Up Get Goes Wanted Which Asked Vienna International Czechoslovakia Multiple Multiple Sclerosis Societies
Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics. Shirley Temple
Politics You People Politicians Think Too Outgoing Pretty Like Well Little Little Thing Actor Thing Shy
My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover. Shirley Temple
Hoover Crush Major Edgar Were Role Role Models Models Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt
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
Me Made Girl Too Gave Except Remembers Nobody Proud Which Movies Act Grownup Chance

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