#ak

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#always #arts #career #doing #hope

Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#archie #character #false #fool #good

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every day - that keeps you in pretty good shape. We could go for a long time in one take. You had to be in good shape with Gene Kelly. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#day #every #every day #gene #gene kelly

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#creativity #fake #sexual #you

I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#become #country #deserves #foster #get

Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#conviction #harshness #makes #without

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#proceed #southerner #those #tolerant #usually

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#about #cannot #choose #live #make

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#book #business #few #god #hands