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" New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people. "
Mary Steenburgen
Wild
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Dance
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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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" I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little. "
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" We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst. "
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" I have never had any success in planning my life, really. "
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" For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone. "
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" There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project. "
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" I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old. "
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" I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice. "
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" I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works. "
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" I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially. "
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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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" I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern. "
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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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" When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing. "
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" I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up. "
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Up
Percent
" Writing is essentially an internal process. "
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" I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen. "
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" I love to play horrible, evil, mean people. "
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Play
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" I like being part of a team. "
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Like
Being
Team
" My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling. "
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Scheduling
Special
Deserve
" 1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that. "
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Nice
Mind
Everyone
" I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this. "
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Africa
Started
" 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. "
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You
Time
" I have hundreds of songs. "
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" If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that. "
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" I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it. "
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" I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar. "
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" I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out. "
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