Mary Steenburgen Quotes
We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
Quotes to Explore
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... even a role I didn't do.' And then I thought, 'The heck with that! Thirty years of experience... ask the girl who did it!' And I feel that if they're not willing to take what I have to say, that's fine! But I'm going to say it.
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Dancing is kind of my thing.
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The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.
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We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
