Flannery O'Connor Quotes
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.Flannery O'Connor
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
Harold Ramis -
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
A. B. Yehoshua -
I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
Maggie Stiefvater -
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
Taylor Wilson -
I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
Gaby Hoffmann
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking -
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
Larry Harvey -
I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
J. Tillman -
In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
Walt Mossberg -
There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
Frances McDormand -
Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
Gary Johnson
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen -
I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
Paloma Faith -
I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
Manolo Blahnik -
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
Walter Kirn -
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
Ian Mckellen -
I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
Yuna
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
Maluma -
The time to make up your mind about people is never.
Katharine Hepburn -
[T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.
Jay-Z -
A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
Flannery O'Connor