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" I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role. "
Mary Steenburgen
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" The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways. "
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" I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them. "
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" It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks. "
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" I feel like I'm attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they've got this whole thing figured out, but there's more going on inside their heads than you might imagine. "
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" If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can. "
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" I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof. "
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" My son, he has a film group, a bunch of film nerds that sit around and screen movies, and when they had Mary Steenburgen Night, the two movies they screened were 'Melvin And Howard' and 'Clifford.' "
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Group
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" That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name. "
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" I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it. "
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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. "
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" My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas. "
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" I learned not to care what other people think. "
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" I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young. "
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" Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that. "
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" I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go. "
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" I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places. "
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