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What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.


Meryl Streep

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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND Meryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be.
MICHELLE OBAMA Don't ever reject a small
when you can't take it all.
TOBA BETA In the end, the truth will prevail. Good and evil keep at war.
Whichever wins, future will beli...
TOBA BETA It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Dia...
BLAKE LIVELY Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE It takes grace to be a great soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It takes time, or does time take it?
ANTHONY LICCIONE I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
BOB MARLEY You can get whatever it has if you can give whatever it takes
SAJI IJIYEMI It does not take courage to kill. It takes courage to live.
RENEE AHDIEH If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS... Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD It takes longer to put them up than it does to take them down.
AL GASKIN Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstandin...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO What matters is not how long it takes but the grace of fulfilled dream.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you ta...
CECELIA AHERN It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men
PHILLIP BROOKS If that's what it take, then that's what it takes.
BRENT MACDONALD Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON You cannot talk about grit. You have to embody it.
You cannot talk about faith. You have to liv...
DRAGOS BRATASANU To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.
RALPH ELLISON Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's ...
DAPHNE ZUNIGA If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them fo...
JESSAMYN WEST It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them fo...
JESSAMYN WEST I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in...
DEYTH BANGER It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do...
ELIZABETH GEORGE God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
JOEY TALLADINO Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.
MARK MATOUSEK It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep fur...
BETH BEHRS Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pak...
REBECCA MACKINNON There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does s...
MERYL STREEP And then they went after Meryl Streep. But (Bernadette) is amazing.
MEGAN MULLALLY You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction. Cause I still love the cause of my destruction -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value, Only when someone else crumbles it... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno...
GARY F EVANS... Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart.. - Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept...
ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love... -Anshika.
ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself .... ...
ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
DONALD RAY POLLOCK Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels.
KYLIE SCOTT This story could be about how hard this is. I don't think people know what kind of work this takes, ...
JAMES FERGUSON Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Worry does not take off trouble of tomorrow but it takes away strength of today.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if t...
JACK LONDON (IT SPECIALIST) Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it tak...
TOM ROBBINS If it takes civil disobedience, that's what it takes.
PAT FITZPATRICK It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong,
DON MEREDITH When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.
CHRISTOPHER CHASE If a theif takes your money and you take it back; does that make you also a theif?
ADOLF HITLER If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
SOTONYE ANGA You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT It takes looks to be pretty, but it takes character to be beautiful.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie ...
BEBE WINANS "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and liste...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Meryl Streep once testified famously before Congress, saying that she was there to represent the uni...
JONAH GOLDBERG You need God's direction before you can prosper in anything you do. However, it takes your choices t...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I love Madhuri Dixit, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Sandra Bullock.
POOJA HEGDE We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a ...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Don't worry, don't panic.
MONIKA JOANNA ORAWIEC It takes more than balls to be a woman. It takes ovaries.
SOLANGE NICOLE We know the feeling and how much it takes to take it to the next level. We were anxious to be here, ...
JACQUIA WINSTEAD I've done it before. That seems to be what it takes sometimes. Not taking anything away from Central...
RICK RUDESILL It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
LEWIS B. SMEDES Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA

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I am old and I have had
more than my share of good and bad.

I'...
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