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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You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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God is a frequency. Stay tuned.
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Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.
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All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.
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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
