Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I find the business world hard.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.
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When I came out when I was 18, and I graduated from high school, and I felt like that was the time to officially say it, I surprised zero people in my family.
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.
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I don't fix anybody, because I don't think anybody's broken. I think what people have are patterns, and those can be changed. People quickly understand that what's controlling their thoughts and emotions are their values and rules, and they learn how to shift those.
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Christ is indispensable to any scientific theory, even if its practitioners do not have a clue about him.
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I learned not to care what other people think.
