Molly Ivins Quotes
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
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We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
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A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies, but a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed.
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In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.
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I did a lot of Shakespeare touring when I was in college in Montana.
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I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.
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I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
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My sister Kim is like Lucille Ball. She's magical in terms of her performance and her writing.
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I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.
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As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.
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I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.
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Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more than 145 million years ago, when Africa and South America were joined, the Amazon's main stem was connected to the Niger River and actually flowed in the opposite direction, toward the Pacific Ocean.
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Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.
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Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!
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Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
