Mary Steenburgen Quotes
'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!
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I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.
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'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.
