Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.

Mary Steenburgen

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• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Friend

• Modesty is my best quality.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Best
  • Quality
  • Modesty

• What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Counts
  • Frame

• I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Person
  • Public
  • Written

• I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

  

  Young Buck
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Maybe

• I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Good
  • Great
  • Happy

• I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Audience
  • Potential
  • Seeing

• Man is an imagining being.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Man
  • Being
  • Imagining

• Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Life
  • Future
  • Die

• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Hunger

• There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • World
  • Talent

• In politics, guts is all.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Politics
  • Guts

• I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision …

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for 'women and the lazy.' His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Nature

• The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Crush

• He’s been off-line for the best part of six hours and is getting a panicky butterfly stomach at the idea of not being in touch with everything that’s happened in the last twenty kiloseconds.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Butterfly

• If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Believe
  • Disease
  • Germs

• If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Together
  • Song
  • Twilight

• Be a great artist in your imagination.

  

  Arnold Jacobs
  • Great
  • Imagination
  • Artist

• I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.

  

  Mary Steenburgen