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Helen Mirren Gives the Best Commencement Address at Tulane!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/helen-mirren-commencement-speech-tulane-university_us_59255c2be4b00c8df2a02ff5?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004First -- Keep it short. No one wants to hear a 30-minute speech. So, that’s it, I’m done, see you at the bar. Make mine a vodka martini with a wedge of lime. The lime is because I’m a health fanatic.
The second point about commencements speech: talk about your journey and connect it to everything you have in common with the audience. So, today’s speech will contain advice for any of you born in England who decide to become Shakespearean actresses, and end up doing nude scenes in ten films. I mentioned that just to see if any of your fathers are getting out their cellphones now to google me. Dads. Stop. Inappropriate. Put it away. I mean the phone!
And number three. Everyone advises a commencement speaker to say one thing that the students will remember 40 years from now. Now that was hard—it took me weeks to come up with it. And then it came to me, something that I believe you will remember in the year 2057 because it is so true. Here it is. Get ready. “Whether you’re in the French Quarter or the Oval Office, no good can ever come from tweeting at 3 a.m.”
I just love her.
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She is teh awesome! 
My hometown!
Such a great lady!
