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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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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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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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I knew there were going to be boos if the Knicks drafted me. That's how New York fans are.
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I think it's the way I talk. I think they thought I was too country. And I'm not ashamed of that by any means.
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I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.
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We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.
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I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'
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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.
