Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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In my classroom, I would start my lessons with a quick review of an old topic. Then, I would introduce a new topic. Finally, I would give my students a problem to solve on their own, one that would reinforce what I'd just taught.
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I like rice, as long as they let me put my own stuff on it. You can bring me white rice or brown rice; just let me doctor it up.
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Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.
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Art is the one place we all turn to for solace. We turn to it constantly, whether you are listening to music, or pop in a film; you want to escape reality, and if you thinking deeply, you want to engage in art in a complex way. Art allows us to navigate the more complicated parts of our lives in a way that is more palpable. We don’t go to the movies just to see a movie; we go for the experience. I’m very interested in the experience. Art has saved my life on a regular basis. I wanted to offer that experience to children, to enlist them, to show them the possibilities that are in the arts, to persuade them to pursue it for both their own personal salvation and for changing the way we are understood.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
