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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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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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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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.
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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.
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The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network.
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Bruce sees a lot of himself in Batman, you know? You could argue that something even worse than what happened to Bruce happened to Duke's parents, who are now Joker-ized. They're not just gone or irretrievably lost. And I'm NOT curing them, so you can put that out there! There's no relief from that.
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If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.
