Mary Steenburgen Quotes
There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.Mary Steenburgen
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.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
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.
Randa Haines -
The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
Mads Mikkelsen -
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Saint Augustine -
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.
Bat for Lashes -
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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
Octavian Paler -
Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
Pat Robertson -
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.
Taylor Kinney -
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.
Victoria Legrand Beach House -
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.
Carl Paladino -
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith Wharton
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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.
Carly Craig -
Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
Fernando Pessoa -
Reality-including one’s own-is divine, not to be defied but honored.
Parker Palmer -
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?
Randall Jarrell -
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
Daniel Barenboim -
I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
Nicholas Sparks
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The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.
John Anthony Genzale -
I really don't know why we need a whole month dedicated to blacks. It's not like they're the only ones that suffered. I mean, what about us whites? We're the ones that have to deal with these monkeys everyday, but you don't see us demanding a whole month to ourselves.
Zach Braff -
Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.
Anne Graham Lotz -
I tend to start with a full set of lyrics, and then my producer, Joel Little, and I work on the music collaboratively.
Lorde -
There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.
Mary Steenburgen