Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.Flannery O'Connor
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge -
I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.
Yvette Nicole Brown -
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
Caio Fonseca -
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson -
I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
Sakshi Tanwar -
I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
Laura Wade
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
Gary Lineker -
I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
Harrison Birtwistle -
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
Usain Bolt -
Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
Yao Ming -
Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
Olafur Eliasson -
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
Young Jeezy
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
Vidya Balan -
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
Randeep Hooda -
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines -
I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
Palmer Luckey -
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
Vikas Swarup
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As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
Dylan Moran -
You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals -
The Internet is the most democratic communication platform in history, largely because we've had network neutrality rules that make sure all web traffic is treated equally, and no voices are discriminated against.
Patrisse Cullors -
I always feel like I don't know how to express myself. I need to be with people that understand my language.
Agathe Snow -
We had the best-equipped and we have the best-trained military force on the face of the earth, right here in Oklahoma.
Harry M. Wyatt III -
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.
Flannery O'Connor