Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.
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This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
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I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you have so many nationalities that are actually mixed together - it's so multicultural.
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The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.
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I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.
