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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It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet and it was just kind of something I did for fun. I met a lot of good friends through it, so it really kept me involved.
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One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.
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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.
