Molly Shannon Quotes
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?
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Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies.
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I had the acting bug from a very early age.
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I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.
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You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.
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I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.
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Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
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I try to put my own history in my work.
