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've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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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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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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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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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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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'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.
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I never wanted to be ordinary. I never just wanted to do one thing.
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I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
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When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.
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People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.
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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.
