Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

Mary Steenburgen

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Live
  • Moment
  • First

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guy

• I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Always
  • Fight
  • See

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Human
  • Problems
  • Everyone

• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Go
  • Physics
  • Colonies

• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Country
  • Internet

• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Years
  • Broken
  • Presidential

• Producing should be a creative responsibility.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Creative

• I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Society
  • Words
  • Choose

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I think any time you have Phil Jackson involved in any organization, you're going to definitely look at it, and it's definitely intriguing. The Knicks are definitely a place where anybody would like to go.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Time
  • Organization

• I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you can't see beyond it.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Good
  • Work
  • Past

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Long

• O my America! my new-found land.

  

  John Donne
  • America

• I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Time
  • America
  • Freedom