Mary Steenburgen Quotes
I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
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Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified.
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It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.
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Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!
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I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
