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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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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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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I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.
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Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
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I felt like they were frustrated and they have a reason to be frustrated. Things didn't happen for them and it's a frustrating thing for these young kids.
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Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
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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.
