Molly Ringwald Quotes
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
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People feel like they grew up with me.
