Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.
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Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.
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We just needed it, period. Just for our sake, not as far as what everyone else is talking about. Just as competitors we just needed a game. We're struggling so badly right now. Then to lose this one would have been really bad, because we played really well defensively.
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I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.
