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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The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
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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 can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?
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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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I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
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I love playing Jim. I love working with this cast and the opportunity to come back and work with them again was just way too appealing for me. Also, I think this is a great way to wrap up the franchise.
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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
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I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.
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Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous.
