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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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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I opened up for Richard Pryor in 1992. I had a conversation with him. All those other comedians can say what they want about what they did, but I opened up for the man. Paul Mooney and I are probably the only ones that can say that.
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
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I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.
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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.
