Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for that. And in the process of learning about my culture, I've learned how to connect myself again to my ancestors.
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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I think I'm good at training dogs, but none of my dogs agree with me on that.
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I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
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To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.
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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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Showing up is not all of life, but it counts for a lot.
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Non sibi sed domino grauis est quae seruit egestas.
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Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.
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I wouldn't mind a little bow. In Japan, they bow. I love it. Only thing I love about Japan.
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The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.
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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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What are you waiting for in order to give up?
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It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
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As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions.
