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 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

• 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

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Free
  • Freedom

• A piece of my heart will always be in football, but my mind ended it.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Football

• Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.

  

  Eric Barker
  • Happiness
  • Gratitude
  • Activity

• In your lifetime, at what point do you stop being an idiot? I'm 24. Enough is enough!

  

  Ernests Gulbis

• We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Always
  • Midnight

• The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this with reverence, the fourteen incidents of the Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the Psychology of Christ. Above all, they show, in detail, his way of transforming suffering by love. He shows us, step by step, how that plan of love can be carried out by men, women, and children today, both alone in the loneliness of their individual lives and together in communion with one another.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Men
  • Children
  • Passion

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

  

  Mary Steenburgen