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There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.

Gillian Flynn

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.
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My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
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I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.
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I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.
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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.
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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.
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I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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Safer to be feared than loved.
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