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.
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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.
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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.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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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.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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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.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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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.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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Look at the way sports, music and film have become driving forces of popular culture. Fashion is the fourth pillar.
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On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail,And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale.
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I want to beat up Michael Fassbender in a movie. I was with him at the beginning of his career when he did an episode of 'Murphy's Law.' He's a proper superstar and enormously talented, but I want to do a scene where I properly duff him up.
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Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.
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Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.
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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.
