Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
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My views have changed as much as the world, and more precisely, the world of art. You have to remember that all my criticisms of the institution were done directly from the world I was in and my analysis of it. Many things that I said about the omnipotence of the museums, for example, are today almost obsolete. In fact, the museum and the institution drastically lost their power by the pure fact that they disseminated by thousands around the world.
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I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.
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The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
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I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me.
