Mary Steenburgen Quotes
'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die.
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It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
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My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.
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You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture. Art enters in.
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Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.
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'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.
