Molly Antopol Quotes

There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me and my experiences.

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• I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.

  

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• Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.

  

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• You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

  

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• There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

  

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• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

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• Midi is my hobby.

  

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• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

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• You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.

  

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  • You
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• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
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• I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

  

  J. Cole
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• Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
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• I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• Money and good life had never been my goal.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.

  

  Dani Shapiro
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• True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• Don Conroy died with exemplary courage, as one would expect. He never complained about pain or whimpered or cried out. His death was stoical and quiet. He never quit fighting, never surrendered, and never gave up. He died like a king. He died like The Great Santini. I thank you with all my heart.

  

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• Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.

  

  Laurence Olivier

• I think when you're talking about marriage equality and race, people very quickly start to get into their political corners: their ideology comes to the forefront, and they get into this platform argument that they're used to making, which really doesn't have anything to do with the day-to-day basics of what is being talked about.

  

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• Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.

  

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• Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

  

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  • Me
  • Voice
  • Making

• 'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.

  

  Jeff Buckley
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• It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me and my experiences.

  

  Molly Antopol
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  • Familiar