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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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
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You can't make a character do something they wouldn't do.
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
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It is so filled with so many issues about being Latino in the United States. Being documented versus being undocumented, and Latinos and the way they are perceived across the nation and especially in California. I know that sounds super broad, and it is. But in the film, we touched on issues enough so that they can be brought up afterward, and then we could invite people to bring them up in a bigger discussion.
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
