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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The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life. Because if you were entitled to life, then the life would have to be quantified. How many years? Seventy? Sixty? Shakespeare was dead at fifty-two. Keats was dead at twenty-six. Thomas Chatterton at seventeen.
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I work in public.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
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Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.
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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.
