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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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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
Author
Film Critic
Journalist
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Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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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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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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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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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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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 assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
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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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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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Problems always start long before you really, really see them.
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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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