Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
R. Kelly -
I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
Owain Yeoman -
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
Ed Asner -
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Patrick deWitt -
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
Aaron Neville -
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
Carlisle Floyd
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
Gabriel E. Gomez -
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
Ugo Betti -
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
R. J. Cutler -
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini -
I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
Randy Newman -
I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
Federica Mogherini
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Music is about the performance.
Vanessa Mae -
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater -
I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
Harland Williams -
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
Mac Davis -
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
Orlando Bloom -
Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
Lady Gaga
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
Calvin Klein -
I'm not going to sit here and go to college for something that I don't care about.
Lili Reinhart -
I didn't drink in high school, and neither did any of my boyfriends.
Emily Giffin -
The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in parts of the Islamic world). Most people are at ease with the idea that our present biosphere is the outcome of four billion years of Darwinian evolution.
Martin Rees -
To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.
Wade Davis -
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
Flannery O'Connor