Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.
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Not to get too grandiose about it, but I really believe I'm saying things a lot of Americans want someone to say.
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I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.
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To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.
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I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.
