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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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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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?
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.
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I carry about eight lip balms: Burt's Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.
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There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.
