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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Critic
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Gillian Schieber Flynn
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Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
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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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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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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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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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've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
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Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.
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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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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
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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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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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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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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
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