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Doing those costume pictures was wonderful. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#doing #pictures #those #wonderful

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#days #doing #going #took #trick

At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#best #despair #discoverers #domesticated #happily

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

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

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#down #good #i #put #remember

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#came #courage #first #first time #harness

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#been #best #could #enough #everywhere

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#ends #expect #life #much #sentimental

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#am #book #controversial #i #i am