Molly Ivins Quotes

All anyone needs to enjoy the state legislature is a strong stomach and a complete insensitivity to the needs of the people. As long as you don't think about what that peculiar body should be doing and what it actually is doing to the quality of life in Texas, then it's all marvelous fun.

Molly Ivins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeQualityFunPeopleTexasThink

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

Jerry Reed

MoneySimplePeopleMeMotivation

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

YouKnowSayHimDividedTill

I do shows, stage shows all the time, and I'm so afraid that people are going to recognize themselves, and they never do. They never do. They're always like, 'Oh, that woman was ridiculous,' and yeah, they're talking about themselves.

Jennifer Coolidge

TimeWomanPeopleTalkingRidiculous

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

Anna D. Shapiro

StoryBetterUnderstandingPowerful

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Angela Davis

LeadershipMyselfNeverIndividual

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.

Angela Duckworth

BoredomYouDevelopmentEmotionYour

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost immediately go back to my office and write those sections. So it was a very close transfer between observation and writing.

Michael Connelly

MemoryResearchWritingProcessBack

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

Joseph Kosinski

WorldThinkMoreDependMadeNeeds

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.

Don Ameche

FatherTimeChildMeThinkHell

Whenever a hater said they hated something about Miranda, I'd do it more.

Colleen Ballinger

SaidMoreSomethingHatedHater

My parents were adorable. They were very kind, and very broad-minded compared to people of their generation.

Anne Reid

ParentsPeopleGenerationKindVery

A solid foundation in genetics is increasingly important for everyone.

Anne Wojcicki

FoundationSolid FoundationImportant

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