Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out.
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From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.
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The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
