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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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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I think it is not irreligion but a tidiness of mind, which rebels against the idea of permeating scientific research with a religious implication.
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I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.'
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You're not cast because you're like someone or because you're sympathetic to them. You're cast because you can act.
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Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.
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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.
