I knew that her canvas was deeper than she had allowed herself to be, ... Something About Mary and Charlie's Angels? Come on. This is bigger. And she was very courageous in my opinion and disciplined. Quite disciplined for someone that the public considers ditzy.


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SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to ma...
SHIRLEY MANSON
Healing is not about moving on or “getting over it,” it’s about learning to make peace with ou...
SHIRLEY KAMISKY
George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, a...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without re...
SHIRLEY MANSON
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material ...
SHIRLEY JACKSON
I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis S...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against ...
JAMES SHIRLEY
I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't eve...
SHIRLEY MANSON
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearin...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
SHIRLEY BASSEY
I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
It was a wonderful time [making "The Partridge Family"] and I loved every minute of it. We had a gr...
SHIRLEY JONES
Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him.
SHIRLEY CORDER
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store a...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.
JOHN SHIRLEY
I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.
SHIRLEY HENDERSON
When I asked my mother why crowds shouted my name and said 'We love you,' she would dust it ...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrus...
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER
I would have liked to come into the grocery some morning and see them all, even the Elberts and the ...
SHIRLEY JACKSON
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
SHIRLEY JACKSON
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, ...
JAMES SHIRLEY
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways ...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
JOHN SHIRLEY
I've been blessed with three wonderful careers: motion pictures and television, wife, mother and...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
JOHN SHIRLEY
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and...
JOHN SHIRLEY
My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
You're never too old to grow up.
SHIRLEY CONRAN
Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.
SHIRLEY HAZZARD
I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
SHIRLEY CONRAN
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
SHIRLEY CONRAN
Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?
SHIRLEY HUGHES
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's ...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close...
JOHN SHIRLEY
Beauty was darkness till she came.
Then paint her eyes, whose active light
Shall make the fo...
JAMES SHIRLEY
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to bui...
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER
I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my ...
SHIRLEY MANSON
Sex is not the enemy . . . I won't feel guilty no matter what they're telling me,
SHIRLEY MANSON
I state for the record that I am PRO CHOICE. No government, no man, no neighbour of mine is going to...
SHIRLEY MANSON
The communication had gotten so bad that I don't think any of us know, even to this day, what was go...
SHIRLEY MANSON
I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the ...
SHIRLEY EATON
Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason t...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
America is composed of all kinds of people - part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to th...
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM
Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chos...
SHIRLEY MANSON