Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!
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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.
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Man is an imagining being.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In politics, guts is all.
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The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
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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 …
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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part.
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I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.
