Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.
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India may be the soul of world cricket, but IPL is its commercial heart. Just as 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' changed the ground rules for quiz shows by injecting a massive dose of money into the equation, IPL has changed the dynamics of the cricket economy.
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Laughter is America's most important export.
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Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.
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Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
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I don't plan to take a formal, cold approach with my children, but I expect a lot. I don't want my children to view me as their best friend. I want to be their mom.
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Really study what types of formats have been working online that you resonate with: get a feel for what works in the current ecosystem of online video. Sometimes, that passion-project you really want to do is not the way to start.
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Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.
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At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.
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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
