Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.
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It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.
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If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
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Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
