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" There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.' "
Mary Steenburgen
Doing
Pieces
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" Wii on Nintendo is amazing. "
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" I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from. "
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" I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible. "
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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. "
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" There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old. "
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" I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody. "
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" I started in improv and went into different kinds of things. "
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Started
" I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old. "
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" Life is about surviving loss. "
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About
Loss
Life
" 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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Want
Grow Up
Grow
" 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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People
Thought
Stupid
" I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make. "
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New York
Feel
" Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work. "
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You
People
" I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life. "
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Decision
Big
Because
" I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks. "
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Childhood
Girl
Heart
" 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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Black
Worst
Way
" 'Last Man On Earth,' I have to say, is a love for me. I mean, a true passion. To people who haven't watched it or who've watched a little and thought, 'Ah, I don't know where this is going,' or whatever, I urge them to check it out again. "
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Me
Love
Man
" I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material. "
Mary Steenburgen
Love
Take
Jobs
" You don't get to make Westerns every day. "
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Westerns
Make
Every Day
" I'm a very musical person. "
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Musical
Person
Very
" 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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Feel
Way
Want
" There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl. "
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Cliches
Than
Skin
" Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal. "
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Never
Real
World
" My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul. "
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Good
Mother
Person
" I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978. "
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Got
" You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine. "
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" If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that. "
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You
Growing
" I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused. "
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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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Book