Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
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I'm kind of in between organized and messy, so if I have the right things to keep me organized, it's easier for me to stay that way. If I don't have the right tools, I'm a train wreck.
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Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.
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I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
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Did I want Britain to remain in the E.U.? Yes. Did I fear the consequences if we quit? Yes. Did I argue passionately for that during the referendum? Absolutely I did.
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
