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Molly Ivins Quotes

It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 30, 1944 - January 31, 2007

Topics

Hell Will Over Up Fail Miss

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Best Behavior I Can Human Behavior

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

School Makeup Think Better Look

I know if mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Happy Nobody Know Mama

What was so lovely about 'O.J.' and 'This Is Us' to a certain extent is that I got a chance to surprise people.

Sterling K. Brown

People Chance Surprise Lovely Us

All I'm armed with is research.

When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.

Wife People Me Management Song Done

Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Say Nothing They Say Show

When I have the opportunity to work, I organize a whole party - like what you perhaps saw at the Grammys.

Work Opportunity You Party Saw Like

I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want that to happen, don't write those songs.

Life People Rest You Country Know

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

Start Learn Kind Where Something

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

You Done Tell How Many Migraine

I love 'Downton Abbey.'

Jonathan Van Ness

Love Downton Abbey I Love Abbey

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