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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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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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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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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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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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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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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Well, before you are always self-you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what we are. I think that’s what changes: the focus on who you’re serving. You’re not serving you. You’re serving Christ.
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I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.
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Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
