Molly Ivins Quotes
You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.
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I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
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I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.
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Let's care and nurture our bodies. You are looking after something from a very early stage. Like a plant, you're giving it food and water and when it grows, look at the amount of buds it gives you. Every year it flourishes and comes back time and time again. Look after yourselves and don't be embarrassed about it.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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People are just not impressed by me at home.
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You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.