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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We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.
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As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.
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I love modeling, and I missed fashion and my friends and family in fashion and the creativity that I'm able to express through it. I didn't feel I was getting enough of that through my acting.
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Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.
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Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.
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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.
