Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you.
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When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
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Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.
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It wasn't a typical 'Let's go play catch in the backyard' sort of father-son relationship. We always went to job sites with him.
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I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.
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I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.
