Fannie Flagg Quotes
It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant.
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I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.
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Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
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My ultimate style icon is Grace Jones.
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It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened
