Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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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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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
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It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.
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That is my priority, that my son is healthy and happy. I will do whatever I can to ensure that, and my husband is the exact same way.
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I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.
