Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.

Mary Steenburgen

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• I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Child

• If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Guitar
  • Just
  • Studying

• There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Attention

• I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Real
  • Me
  • Comedy

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• It isn't always on the front pages, but the horrifying mistreatment and subjugation of women around the globe is very much worthy of more attention.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Attention
  • Always

• I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • I Believe

• I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Time
  • Character
  • Period

• On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Perfect
  • Yourself
  • Direction

• I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Thought
  • Felt
  • Through

• Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Baseball
  • Whole
  • Undergone

• I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Story
  • Fruit
  • Apple

• As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Dread
  • Approval
  • Thirst

• In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• There's more to life than football, right?

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Life
  • Football
  • More

• You can never overlook a guy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • You
  • Never

• Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Life
  • Home
  • My Life

• I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Up
  • Proud
  • Hair

• I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Jan Hus
  • God
  • Hope
  • Death

• Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Power

• There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Strong

• It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

  

  Matthew Ashford
  • Work
  • Fun

• I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.

  

  Mary Steenburgen