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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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
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The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.
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I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.
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You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.
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I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.
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If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
