Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
Quotes to Explore
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I can never find the right bras.
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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It takes us about four or five days to get an album out.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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I just felt very young and unprepared. I didn't know anyone who'd been pregnant, and I didn't know anyone who'd had a baby. Because everyone around me didn't really get it, I just kept on as though nothing was happening, even though I was slightly scared and throwing up everywhere.
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Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
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I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
