Fannie Flagg Quotes

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

Fannie Flagg

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• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

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• Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.

  

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• Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

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• Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.

  

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• I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

  

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• In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

  

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• Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.

  

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• I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.

  

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• I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

  

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• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

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• What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

  

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• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  

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• I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.

  

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• My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

  

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• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

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• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

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• I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

  

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• I believe it is extremely important for the Japanese people to strive to accurately understand this past history along with the ensuing era.

  

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• Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

  

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• I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.

  

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• I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

  

  Fannie Flagg
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