Flannery O'Connor Quotes
The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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The sound was essentially background sound, myself, and Carl, Dennis and Al Jardine, Mike was our lead singer. The four of us put our voices together. We had done it really beautifully. We had a beautiful blend. We really did.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
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I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.
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There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
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The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
