Molly Ivins Quotes
I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.
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I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
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So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
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Well, I'm Italian, but my family isn't stereotypical. I mean, I only have one sister and we don't yell or throw pasta at each other. My mother doesn't even have a secret spaghetti sauce recipe.
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All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.
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You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
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I used to go on college campuses 25 years ago and announce I was a feminist, and people thought it meant I believed in free love and was available for a quick hop in the sack. ... Now I go on college campuses and say I'm a feminist, and half of them think it means I'm a lesbian. How'd we get from there to here without passing "Go"?
