Molly O'Keefe Quotes
My son is getting close to the age that I remember watching Scrooge, and as he loves to be scared, I can't wait to start my favorite holiday tradition all over again with him.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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The truth is, I'm not body confident.
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The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
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I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.
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It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.
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Wow, I think you grow all the time when you're working. You start the job and by the end of it, if it's a long one, you kind of say, 'My God, I was so different at the start of this job.' I always feel like I've changed for the better with each one.
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I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.
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Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.
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I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.
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I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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The 3-hour Diet is absolutely safe - in fact it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle! Once you reach your goal weight, you just adjust the portion sizes slightly to maintain that optimal weight.
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I'd rather have a full house at a medium price than half-full at a high price.
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My son is getting close to the age that I remember watching Scrooge, and as he loves to be scared, I can't wait to start my favorite holiday tradition all over again with him.
