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 have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Help
  • Government
  • Road

• The only thing that was sort of Asian as a role model was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • She
  • Model

• My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  

  Alexis Denisof
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• When I left the penitentiary, I learned to stay away from the Philly cheesesteaks, the pizza, the junk that clogs your arteries and kills you.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Pizza

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

  

  Mary Steenburgen