Mary Steenburgen Quotes

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

Mary Steenburgen

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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.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Said
  • Rebel

• If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Great
  • Different
  • Revolution

• Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • America
  • Doing
  • Wonderful

• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Family
  • Know
  • Violence

• I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Always
  • Years
  • Television

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• 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.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Future
  • Always
  • Care

• At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Kiss

• Laughter is America's most important export.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Important
  • America
  • Laughter

• Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Always
  • Give

• If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Winner

• I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

  

  Halsey
  • Doing
  • Popular
  • Some

• 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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Rude

• 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?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Long
  • Why
  • Breakfast

• I don't know; I don't really look at pictures of me when I'm in public.

  

  Blake Lively

• He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn’t there anymore.

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Water
  • Ends

• It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play... We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television?

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Why
  • Art
  • Soul

• I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

  

  Jonas Salk
  • Cancer

• The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Brain
  • Doe
  • Beats

• Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

  

  Mary Steenburgen