Shirley Temple
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Shirley Jane Temple (April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014), later known as Shirley Temple Black, was a child actress starring in over 40 films during the 1930s. She later became a diplomat and United States ambassador.
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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.
- Quoted in The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Robert Andrews
- Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.
- Quoted in Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women by Bill Adler, p. 94
- Macho attitudes usually fall victim to hard work, timely humor, and an absence of resentment.
- Quoted in: Kalb, Claudia. "Shirley Temple Black’s Remarkable Second Act as a Diplomat." Smithsonian Magazine, June 2022.
Quotes about Shirley Temple[edit]
- Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter. There were paper-doll books of her and of the Dionne Quintuplets-five identical girls born to a French-Canadian family and of the famous dollhouse of the actress Colleen Moore, which contained every luxury conceivable in perfect miniature, including a tiny phonograph that played Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting. I must have seen her dancing with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in The Littlest Rebel, but I remember her less as a movie star than as a presence, like President Roosevelt, or Lindbergh, whose baby had been stolen; but she was a little girl whose face was everywhere on glass mugs and in coloring books as well as in the papers.
- Adrienne Rich What is Found There (1993)
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