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MOLLY HARPER When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a uni... MOLLY FRIEDENFELD Conservatives, in general, are anti-immigrant for the same reasons they have always been anti-immigr... MOLLY IVINS Keep calm and grow magic pomegranates. MOLLY RINGLE Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. MOLLY IVINS One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as ... MOLLY IVINS I always hoped for this spark of chemistry and compatibility, a flash of clarity to let me know that... MOLLY HARPER TRUTH serves a great purpose for all that want to see. It will help uncover your life’s mission in... MOLLY FRIEDENFELD ... having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life ... MOLLY ANTOPOL With voice-over, you have to pretend like you're three, except you can talk and read. MOLLY QUINN Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put you... MOLLY QUINN When I started to write 'Crazy Thing Called Love,' I wanted a conflict that would not only b... MOLLY O'KEEFE Did you look up 'incubus'?" Ren asked, in her ear. She heard a smile in his voice. "Yes. ... MOLLY RINGLE Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt th... MOLLY IVINS If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle Eas... MOLLY IVINS I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or ... MOLLY RINGWALD Create simple ways to prove the Divine exists in every aspect of your life and then make the choice ... MOLLY FRIEDENFELD Stupid werewolf ninja sperm. MOLLY HARPER In a werewolf pack, you cannot interfere with the mate choice of a clan fellow. You cannot intention... MOLLY HARPER There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear m... MOLLY HARPER Fortunately, among werewolf women, the word "bitch" is not offensive. I was having a lot of fun with... MOLLY HARPER Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in Amer... MOLLY IVINS Old-fashioned anti-immigrant prejudice always brings out some old-fashioned racists. MOLLY IVINS I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that... MOLLY RINGWALD The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by... MOLLY IVINS I have always been a left-winger and an outsider. I loved being that. I was perfectly cheerful with ... MOLLY IVINS As I continue to write as M. O'Keefe, I find myself following darker story lines. Plots I might ... MOLLY O'KEEFE I loved 'Friday Night Lights' because it was totally committed to every facet of its storyte... MOLLY O'KEEFE Timing is everything. MOLLY SIMS