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Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

Gillian Flynn

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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Film Critic
Journalist
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Television Critic
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Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.
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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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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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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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There are no really new stories anymore.
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I would have done anything to feel real again.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
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To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.
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And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.
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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 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'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.
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It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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