Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.Flannery O'Connor
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
Adam Draper -
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
Kamala Harris -
People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
Kate Upton -
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
Pat Paulsen -
We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
Zac Goldsmith -
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
Yami Gautam -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen -
America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
Olga Kurylenko -
I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
Adam Driver -
I've had to be tough my whole life.
Karen Handel -
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
Usher -
I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
Jackson Browne -
I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
Faith Hill -
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
Caleb Deschanel -
My wife watches me like a hawk.
Carl Icahn -
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. Fields
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My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.
Kirsten Gillibrand -
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis -
Laura's [my sister] rooting for her brother. She'd better. She's known him a lot longer than me.
Aaron James "A. J." Hawk -
I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
My whole career has been an act of revenge.
Ruby Wax -
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
Flannery O'Connor