Mary Steenburgen Quotes
A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.
Quotes to Explore
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It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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Being evil is easy.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I am a just man.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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I do not like violence.
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Given an opportunity, Modi has violated the freedom of press both in letter and spirit. He destroys freedom of the press whenever he gets a chance.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
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We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.
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When John Lennon sings, 'Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open' - these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
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You look at it as a privilege. So you really decide that you're going to put the time in and work really hard to get to the point where you're ready.
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I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
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A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.
