Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
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Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
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'Tiempos del Mundo' is insignificant as far as the newspaper market is concerned here in Buenos Aires.
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I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.
