Molly Shannon Quotes

You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.

Molly Shannon

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• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Attitude
  • Opinions
  • Trends

• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Doubt
  • Walking
  • Innocence

• Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Dark
  • Negative

• The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Book

• To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Music
  • Cool

• Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.

  

  James P. Gorman

• For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• In my regular life, I don't really wear much makeup unless I'm going out.

  

  Bianca Lawson
  • Life
  • Makeup

• I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • Professional

• It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • World
  • America
  • History

• A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.

  

  Dean Bakopoulos
  • Good

• I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Peace
  • Deep

• You get into these executive offices, and people say, 'Oh, we have this project. Wait a minute, guys, we need diversity - let's choose a black actor for this; let's choose a Hispanic actor for this,' instead of saying, 'That's not diverse, that's just normal. That's what makes up America.'

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• In a few years, we might not still be into Instagram, but hopefully I'll be into the next thing and have fun do it.

  

  Chiara Ferragni
  • Fun

• I always loved to be a ham and be at the center of attention, always in everybody's faces.

  

  Meaghan Jette Martin
  • Attention

• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Together

• And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Time
  • Done
  • Interesting

• I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire. Of course it is very fine of me to be renouncing so much wealth and power for the sake of my wonderful dear Niafer: but she is worth the sacrifice, and, besides, she is witnessing all this magnanimity, and cannot well fail to be impressed.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Power

• We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Effort

• You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Thinking
  • Reading
  • Feelings