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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
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You say your life's a bum deal 'n yer up against the wall. Well, people, you ain't even got no deal at all. 'Cause what they do in Washington. They just takes care of Number One. An' Number One ain't you. You ain't even Number Two!
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
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Very worried and nerveux for 1944. Life is dark – as is death. Close 1943.
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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.
