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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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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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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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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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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The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.
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Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.
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The Gujral doctrine is a doctrine of good neighbourliness. In South Asia, India is the largest country and the largest economy. All the countries of the neighbourhood put together cannot match India. Therefore, it is my doctrine, that in the post-Cold War era, all the neighbours must look up to India as a friendly neighbour. For doing so, if concessions have to be given, they should. But these concessions do not include two things: no transfer of sovereignty of any part of India, including Kashmir; and second, we will not compromise on our basic secular, democratic polity. Minus these two factors, we are willing to give concessions as long as it does not hurt our defence.
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When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
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I learned not to care what other people think.
