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

• 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.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • World
  • Money
  • Heart

• 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

• I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.

  

  Emilie Autumn Liddell
  • Work
  • Done

• But science is not a democracy. Science is a brutal arena where ideas are picked apart, attacked, and tested to see if they hold up. Those that do hold up live to fight another day. Those that don’t are dragged off and discarded. To survive, a theory must be supported by vibrant, meaningful, replicable research.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Learning
  • Passion

• The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother, drama teacher twisted me into doing this TV thing that I thought my mates were doing, too.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Teacher

• A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

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

  

  Mary Steenburgen