Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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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.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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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!
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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.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
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I concentrate on doing good projects.
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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.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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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.
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Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the Press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all
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I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.
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What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
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I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.
