Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.

Mary Steenburgen

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• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Way
  • Criticism
  • Legitimate

• I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Old

• My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Live
  • Independent
  • Place

• I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Different
  • Me
  • Kind

• I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Focus

• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Dead

• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Day
  • Now
  • Outside

• I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Scary

• That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • Why
  • Night

• I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Better

• I concentrate on doing good projects.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Doing Good

• Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Vision

• MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Black
  • Running

• I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Learn
  • Yourself
  • Mistakes

• A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Friends

• I do not make secrets from my years, and probably it’s good. Since people give me much less than there really is.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Years
  • Secrets
  • Give Me

• I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • School
  • America

• Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single day, every single year. But if your standard is to be the best, there will be days when you fall short of that goal. It is okay to not win every game. The only problem would be if you allow a loss or a failure to change your standards. Keep your standards intact, keep the bar set high, and continue to try your very best every day to meet those standards. If you do that, you can always be proud of the work that you do.

  

  Mike Krzyzewski
  • Trying
  • Winning
  • Would

• I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.

  

  Mary Steenburgen