Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
Flannery O'Connor
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
La India
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
Vicki Lawrence
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
Eddie Murphy
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
Randee Heller
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
Daniel Ellsberg
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus
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Remember Robin Williams's great work as the voice of the genie in Disney's 'Aladdin'? Because he wanted to leave something wonderful behind for his kids, he said, he did the voice for a cut-rate fee of $75,000, far below his usual $8 million payday. But then something happened: The movie became a huge hit, raking in $504 million.
Christopher Voss
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The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles.
Van Morrison
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The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.
James Salter
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I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
Flannery O'Connor