Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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The world is always in movement.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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My life is not perfect.
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.
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If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Anne Boleyn isn't a sympathetic character, but I like that she isn't a people pleaser. She's ambitious and manipulative, but she's honest. I'm biased, but I don't think a woman who has said 'no' to the King of England for six years would jump into bed with four of his best friends. She was a slick political mind.
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I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require – the restoration of our domestic parliament...
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Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
