Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
Gareth Gates
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
Natasha Leggero
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
Carine Roitfeld
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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
Maj Sjowall
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
A. N. Wilson
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
Talulah Riley
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
Daniel Gilbert
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I don't have business with any politicians.
Carlos Slim
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
Gary Oldman
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
Halima Aden
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
Laura Riding
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
Walid Jumblatt
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
Flume
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
Yvonne Strahovski
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. Forbes
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I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.
Stevie Wonder
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When I went in for the Embraced DVD interviews, I thought, "Good lord, it's 17 years later!" I thought that maybe I should do my make-up differently and put extra effort in, or I'd look like a different human being. It's very strange.
Brigid Brannagh
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You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far." So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven.
Ellen Schreiber
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Chaplains are here to serve the needs of servicemembers who ask for assistance—persons struggling with personal, professional, or philosophical problems they want addressed from a religious viewpoint. They are not hired to be roving missionaries to all persons with whom they come in contact.
Barry W. Lynn
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
Flannery O'Connor