Mary Steenburgen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.
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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
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Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
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I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the notion that good people don't do this; good people are responsible, good people participate in community, and good people vote, good people own land. These were things I heard from my father's pulpit.
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My favorite special skill on my resume is 'excellent monkey noises.'
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I love cookery programmes.
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I was excited to turn 60.
