Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.
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I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.
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The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
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As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
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I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
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A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
