Mary Steenburgen Quotes
Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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I think a British icon is someone who conducts themself with real dignity: someone who is truly talented and modest. These are things that I would aspire to in my career.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.
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I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.
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In New York, I get people coming up to me because 'The History Boys' was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you.
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If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
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I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones started out like me. Her big break in Hollywood was in 'Zorro.'
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Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.
