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 got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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I loved 'Iron Man.'
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People fall forward to success.
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Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people whom they meet. Thus they will find that there is no one who has not much of good; and when they see some great folly, or some meanness, or some cowardice, or some fault or weakness in another person, they should examine themselves carefully. Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves - although perhaps it does not come out in the same way - and then they must try to conquer that fault.
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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.
