Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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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.
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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.
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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.
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I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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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.
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There's more to life than football, right?
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You can never overlook a guy.
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It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to walk the tightrope of doing what you think is your best and making money at it.
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This is one bar you should take home.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.
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In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.
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I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.
