Mary Steenburgen Quotes
Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I'm not graceful.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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I've always lived in the moment.
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I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.
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Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.
