Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
Sally Phillips -
My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
Queen Latifah -
I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
Finn Wittrock -
Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
E. L. Konigsburg -
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
Tahar Rahim -
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
Kacey Musgraves -
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon -
I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
Haley Joel Osment -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola -
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel -
When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
Cara Delevingne
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When I diced vegetables, it was painstaking work to make sure that every single piece looked the same: 1/4-inch cubed for small, 3/4-inch cubed for large. It's a matter of practice and precision.
Gail Simmons -
I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
Paddy Considine -
The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.
Ian McLagan Small Faces -
Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran Lebowitz -
American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won't violate one another's privacies. This makes it a land of small talk.
Karan Mahajan -
With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
J. Anthony Lukas
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The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
Pauly Shore -
Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.
Hal Sparks -
It feels good when your hometown supports you, and Macon's always done that with us. Every time we come here, it's an event - which is nice.
Jason Aldean -
What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
Sally Phillips -
You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.
Annette Curtis Klause -
Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.
Flannery O'Connor