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 -
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers -
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 -
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 -
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 -
He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
Earl Wilson
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
Sam Claflin -
I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin -
Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
Victor Ponta -
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
Utada Hikaru -
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Saint Ignatius -
Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
Patricia Riggen
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
Hari Kondabolu -
Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
Adam McKay -
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
Harriet Martineau -
The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
Vernon A. Walters -
You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
Gail Sheehy -
Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
Kate Walsh
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Being short works for me.
Freema Agyeman -
Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
When I choose a movie, I'll ask myself: 'Is this a movie I want to see?'
Dennis Quaid -
Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
Francesca Lia Block -
You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing.
Scott M. Gimple -
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
Flannery O'Connor