Flannery O'Connor Quotes
In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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It's an important fact of life, war.
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I love [my father] so much with all my heart and my soul with every bone in my body I love him so much because he's done so much for me.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real character, then something is bound to happen.
