Molly Ringwald Quotes
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I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.
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People feel like they grew up with me.
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The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.
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I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
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John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
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A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.
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I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.
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When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
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I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.
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Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
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Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.
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When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
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I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
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My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.
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I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.
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I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.
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I have a very independent spirit.
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I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.
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Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.
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I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.
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In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
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I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
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The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.
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I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.