"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
― Meryl Streep
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Mom
More From Meryl Streep
- "The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
- "Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men."
- "I didn’t have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."
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- "My mom, she wasn’t like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing."― David Ortiz
- "I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house."― Jay-Z
- "Well, my mom is single and we’ve both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane’s."― Amanda Peet