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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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.
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I don't know when it started - this thing - bit it's growing, muffling me, suffocating me like poison ivy. I grew into it. It grew into me. We blurred at the edges, became an amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.
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What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.
