Fannie Flagg Quotes
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
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Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
