Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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The world is too violent right now.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
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What I love is getting polarized opinions.
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I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before.
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The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.
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It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.
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I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.
