Mary Steenburgen Quotes
There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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I look up to a strong woman; maybe that's why I fell for Gaga. She works incredibly hard and is very strong and inspirational like Mom, with a great work ethic.
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I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.
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I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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Reality-including one’s own-is divine, not to be defied but honored.
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I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.
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I'm such a geek now with princesses. It's pathetic.
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We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.
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In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.
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There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.
