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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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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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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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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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 was France.
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These discussions resulted in the creation of the new corporation in a true partnership between city and the business community.
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Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'
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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.
