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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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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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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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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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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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.
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There's a lot I've yet to say about 'American Idol,' so I am excited about teaming up with 'Idol Go Home' and starting my blog.
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It makes a huge difference in how you feel, the way your costume holds you. When you look at yourself in the mirror, it makes you feel a certain way. Actors like to talk a lot about working from the inside out, but there's a lot to be said also about working from the outside in. It can be extremely helpful.
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The No. 1 country in the world to do business in is which one? To locate where you want to create jobs, where you want to have a great market? It's Canada. Even in Russia, you can build a Silicon Valley outside of Moscow.
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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.
