Mary Steenburgen Quotes
New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.
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I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of people will make the right choice.
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As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
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New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.
