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.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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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.
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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.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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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.
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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.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?
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How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
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To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.
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There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
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Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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In my regular life, I don't really wear much makeup unless I'm going out.
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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.
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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.
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A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.
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Because I don't like to play on a full stomach, I try to eat a bigger meal in the morning and less throughout the day leading up to the game.
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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Time flows away like the water in the river.
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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.
