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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There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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The whole nature of the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that everything is connected, and everything is interconnected. You have all of these strands with all of these characters, and you watch the characters interact and you wonder, "What do they have to do with each other? How does any of this link?"
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If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
