Molly Ivins Quotes
I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
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I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'
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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.
