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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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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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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Her blue eyes sought the west afar,For lovers love the western star.
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You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.
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Navalny is doing a very important thing in his segment of society. Gudkov is a doing a very important thing in his segment of society. Yabloko, or more accurately, some of the leaders of the Yabloko party, are doing a very important job in their segment of the population, people such as Schlosberg. And our organization Open Russia is also doing important work with its segment of society, because those people who are focused on us, our segment, they're not part of those other segments.
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It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
