Molly Ringwald Quotes
I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.
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Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
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One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.
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On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.
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From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
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After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older.
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The circus is a global theme. It exists in all parts of the world - maybe not in Africa, but it exists in Asia in all parts. In Latin America, it's difficult to find a person who hasn't gone to the circus.
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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
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If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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Lady Antebellum will always be my focus.
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I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.