Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm not a leading man.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.
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That's why I love music so much. It completely saved me. There are so many feelings you can't explain, and you can hear one note on a guitar and somehow that sound explains what you can't put into words.
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Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
