Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I make my own face exfoliant at home, using finely ground rice powder mixed with milk or yogurt. I also treat my skin to a honey, rose water, glycerine and lemon face pack. The honey moisturises, and the lemon removes impurities.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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That's my house and that's my car. That's my dog in my backyard. There's the window to the room. Where she lays her pretty headI planted that tree out by the fence. Not long after we moved in. That's my kids and that's my wife. Who's that man, runnin' my life?
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There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."
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Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
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I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.
