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 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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In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
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I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.
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When the six-year-old daughter of a friend of mine overheard her father telling someone that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize, she asked whether I had ever received it before. He replied that the Prize was something you could get only once. Whereupon the small girl thought a moment: 'Oh' she said, 'so it's like chicken-pox.'
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I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.
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There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.
