"Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying."

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Flannery O'Connor

#Character Quotes #Matter Quotes #Behavior Quotes

“I was telling somebody just the other day, there's technically such a hierarchy in this business. You have film, that's the ideal; then you have TV, and things like web series do not claim as much cred, but the fact is, if the material is solid and I believe and trust in the team that's involved, I don't care what format it is.”
“I always try to make myself be very approachable and easy to talk to, so hopefully people will feel that they can approach me.”
“There are so many young women who throw their talent away.”

Source : Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.
“I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.”
“I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.”
“It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.”
“Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.”
“If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the code of Hammurabi. Presumably it is because Moses is still felt to make some claim on us that this project of discrediting his law is persisted in with such energy. The unscholarly character of the project may derive from the supposed familiarity of the subject.”

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