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Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
Meryl Streep
Children
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
Power
Empathy
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Meryl Streep
Mother
Being
Pets
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep
Actor
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
Meryl Streep
Business
Time
Work
The work will stand, no matter what.
Meryl Streep
Work
Will
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Meryl Streep
Business
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
Meryl Streep
Negotiation
Road
We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.
Meryl Streep
Old
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
Meryl Streep
Husband
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
Meryl Streep
Work
Fun
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
Meryl Streep
Fact
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
Meryl Streep
Movies
Being
Reason
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
Meryl Streep
Character
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
Meryl Streep
Personality