Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
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A lot of what acting is paying attention.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.
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One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
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Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
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It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.
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It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
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The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as Displaced Persons as long as the Jews get special treatment. Yet when they have power, physical, financial or political neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or mistreatment to the under dog. Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon, Baptist he goes haywire. I've found very, very few who remember their past condition when prosperity comes.
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I think, what I want to say is that yes, my ideas have travelled into popular culture they also emerged from popular culture in a way, or from the general public as you put it. But not as a program.
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Luckily, it's one of my favorite movies [Night Of The Living Dead]. I never get tired of watching it.
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You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
