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Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Gillian Schieber Flynn
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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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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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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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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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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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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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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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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 all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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.)
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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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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The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
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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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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
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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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I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.
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