Molly Shannon Quotes
In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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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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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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Winning a major, that's what everybody wants to do, and I worked my whole life to do it. And to realize that, it's incredible.
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We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.
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An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.
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I don't happen to believe, by the way, that immigration policies that single people out because of religion, for instance, are fair and just.
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People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!
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In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
