Flannery O'Connor Quotes
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows!
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
