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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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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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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I know I don't want to do another single-camera show. It's so time-consuming. I did a couple of episodes of 'Whitney' as her mom, but I have been laying low. I love being with my kids and being a mom.
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I still remember when I was 18 and my life was completely different. I was in my apartment, and I got the call that I got Stiles for this pilot. I was just jumping around with my roommates, freaking out. It's crazy to think about.
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My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
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But if they didn't think it was a joke, or if anybody took it the wrong way other than a joke, when you make a mistake like that, you've got to apologize. So I apologize to anybody that might have taken it the other way.
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It's an awful thing to be aware of your own corruption. I think a lot of people are bound by the particular economic system we work in to serve companies and masters who aren't really telling people what they're doing.
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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.
