Mary Steenburgen Quotes
The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS.Mary Steenburgen
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
Queen Latifah -
I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift -
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz -
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland -
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
Taylor Negron -
For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark -
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
Kate DiCamillo -
After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
Valentina Tereshkova -
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
Zadie Smith -
I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
Katey Sagal -
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
A. P. Herbert
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
Octavia E. Butler -
Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
Kangana Ranaut -
It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
Vanilla Ice -
One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
Zoey Deutch
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I always told my young umpires, 'Don't get mad. Whatever you do, don't show it. But no matter how long it takes, get even.'
Doug Harvey -
That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
Ben Harper -
I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.
Philip Schultz -
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.
Richard Pryor -
The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS.
Mary Steenburgen