Flannery O'Connor Quotes

He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

Flannery O'Connor

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• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
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• If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
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• I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

  

  Veronica Roth
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• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
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• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
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• I like seeing girls throw down.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
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• Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

  

  Natalie du Toit
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• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
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• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

  Ovid
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• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
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• In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.

  

  Dan Hill
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• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
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• Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

  

  Wendy Liebman
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• It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.

  

  Camilla Luddington
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• I like to do Pilates.

  

  Yunjin Kim
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• I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• We want kids to value real food and understanding that it isn't just about feeding people but about nourishing the body, the community and the planet.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • People
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• I'm immensely fortunate to have been involved in the 'Star Trek' universe. It has been a lot of fun, and I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity to have been part of something so important to so many people.

  

  Alice Krige
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• People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • People
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• Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.'

  

  David Ignatius
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• For me, the costume is very important. More the feel of it than the look of it. I take it more from the inside. So if I wear something that's heavy, it will affect my character. Is it very tight, and do I feel almost imprisoned, or is it very comfortable? It's the feeling of the costume that tells me where to go with the character.

  

  Vicky Krieps
  • Important
  • Character
  • Feeling

• He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Feeling
  • Broken
  • Happened