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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Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
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I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
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We look for romance in the well-cultivated garden-plots, and when it springs out of virgin soil we are surprised, though any fool might know it was the natural place for it.
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
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I learned not to care what other people think.
