Molly Ivins Quotes
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective on the news that the American market is in need for.
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It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
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The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.
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Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
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When I reach out to people to ask them to be involved in anything I shoot, I want them to want to share their story.
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When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'
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My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.
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Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.
