Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
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No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!
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Your closest approximation of the purpose of the universe can be found in those loving emotions that you have toward the development of your children, in your intent to have them develop their fullest capacities.
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..for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho.
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If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
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Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
