Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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Where there is love there is life.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
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I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.
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I like to go with the energy because when you ignore it that's when you start doing things wrong.
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I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.
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A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.
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Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
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The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
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I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
