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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But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.
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When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
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I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.
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There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.
