Mary Steenburgen Quotes

Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.

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• I have a great team at WME.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Team
  • Great Team

• I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Living

• The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Hate

• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Black
  • Respect
  • Lucky

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • America
  • Growth
  • Period

• To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Hate

• You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Play
  • Guitar

• Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Cool
  • Pictures
  • Lifestyle

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Analog
  • Slide-Rule

• I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Evolution

• It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • Make A Difference

• We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Important
  • Very
  • Maintain

• That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Job
  • Balance
  • Create

• I'm not studying this, I'm not looking at it in great detail, but the last guy to announce on your show came in fourth.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Great
  • Guy

• If you bet on individuals, instead of the people, you are going to fail.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • People
  • Individual
  • Failing

• We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • Feeling
  • Relationship
  • Hand

• I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.

  

  Emilie de Ravin
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Crazy

• Every writer dreams of having the ability to hold forth for 8,000 words and pull all these different forms together: history, reportage, journalism. That was all I really wanted, and 'The Atlantic' was my first high-profile opportunity.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Different
  • Together
  • History

• Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.

  

  Mary Steenburgen