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I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.

Molly Ringwald

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Molly Ringwald
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: February 18
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Molly Kathleen Ringwald
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I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.
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Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.
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To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.
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Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.
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I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
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Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.
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I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.
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It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.
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We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.
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I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.
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I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.
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I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.
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I just needed to leave Hollywood.
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I never really felt like I belonged in California.
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Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
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I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
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I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.
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I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
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When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
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Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.
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