Mary Steenburgen Quotes
My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Making music is fantastic.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
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The notion that we need a higher power, that’s more a human failing than a reflection of reality. The universe pays no attention to what we need. Truth is what it is, and the inconveniences it might cause us don’t change anything.
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I signed 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon' only for a year. But the producer requested me to stay on, as the show had just started to make money. I carried on, and in the process, the character became very popular. When I finally gave up, changing the actor for that character was difficult, so the show ended.
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My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.
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'Skins' was such a great platform for young actors. They had this whole thing about getting people who weren't trained, this new generation, this new culture.
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My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
