Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.
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I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
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Television was essentially my college.
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Everything I do has an underlying political question.
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The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.
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I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.
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It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.
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There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.
