Molly Shannon Quotes
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'
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I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.
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My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
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I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.
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When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
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I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
