Molly Ivins Quotes
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.
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For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
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A man can never dream these kinds of thingsEspecially when she came and spread her wingsWhispered in my ear the things I'd likeThen she flew away into the night.
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I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
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We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
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My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.
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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.
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The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
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It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
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You can write a thousand lists and make a million vision boards, but if you don't clearly feel what you want to experience, it will never truly manifest into form.
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There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'
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The rain, it raineth every day.
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I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do.
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We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?
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...you could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain.
