Flannery O'Connor Quotes
He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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We can always find creative ways to do things.
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the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.
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I thought we’d get to see forever. But forever’s gone away. It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.
