Mary Steenburgen Quotes
My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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When my body and face were perfect as far as youth, I wasn't happy.
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The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.
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My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
