Mary Steenburgen Quotes
It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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My health is fine.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
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I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Bad work follers ye ez long's ye live.
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It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.
