Fannie Flagg Quotes
Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
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I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.
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A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume responsibility for.
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San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
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As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
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The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
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Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.
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Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
