Molly Parker Quotes
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.
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All of the full moons for the entire year are special in that they have particular names.
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It's insensitive, inappropriate language, and it's conduct unbecoming a teacher.
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The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image.
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As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
