Flannery O'Connor Quotes
When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.
Flannery O'Connor
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
Imogen Cunningham
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
Barry Sanders
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
Taryn Manning
Boomkat
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
Quentin Tarantino
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
Nathan Myhrvold
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With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.
Mark Ruffalo
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I remember when I was in the sixth grade, my friends used to come over and we would give each other blindfolded makeovers, which turned out interestingly to say the least!
Bethany Mota
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Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.
Charlie Day
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No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.
Katherine Dunn
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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
Oscar Wilde
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When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.
Flannery O'Connor
