Molly Shannon Quotes
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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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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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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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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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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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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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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I think it's important to understand that in the big historical context of things, there has been land degradation from civilisation since the beginning of history. I mean, the Rajputana desert in India is a manmade desert caused by overgrazing.
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I have a great track record, and I have never been sued. If I can't find someone for someone, I refer them out. I have an affiliate division of matchmakers all over the world that I work with. Men like certain types of women, and I can subcontract that out to foreign countries.
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We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
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Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
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I feel like trying to write a song in order to be a big hit is just not something I'm interested in because it's not going to come from an authentic place of expression.
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Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.
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If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
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The Latinos were doing the five-name thing long before celebrities made it cool. We've been doing things like Antonio Ricardo Luis Raoul Hector Rivera for a while now.
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As I grew, I learned to love myself more every day and not pay attention to the negative people, which helped a lot.
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Penguin became less of a publisher for all different kinds of people and increasingly became the paperback publisher for the best-educated people, those people who shopped at bookstores. That proved perhaps not only to be rather elitist, but it also proved not to be good business.
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When I have to do something fast, I wear the most unflattering rubber pants over my pants and a big easy sweater. I can get on my knees in the garden in whatever condition, and when I'm done, I can take it off, get in the car, and drive to the office. It's the most practical thing.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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When my dad went to college to get his master's from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.
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I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
