Mary Steenburgen Quotes
If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.
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I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.
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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.
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The tragedy of 9/11 and the bloody scrambling-up of the Middle East were painful reminders that the world had not yet reached any end-of-history ideal. But these events mattered less to the assumptions and strategies of huge multinational companies than one might guess.
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As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.
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If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.
