Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
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A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.
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Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
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The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
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I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.
