Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
