Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living.
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And finally, to all Canadians: Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one - a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly. We can look after our seniors. We can offer better futures for our children. We can do our part to save the world's environment. We can restore our good name in the world.
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Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
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The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.
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Our generation grew up with technology. It evolved as we grew up. This new generation has had it since they were babies. That's crazy. It fundamentally changes they way they understand and think about technology. They've never known life without it, whereas we knew life without the Internet.
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I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.
