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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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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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Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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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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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 would have done anything to feel real again.
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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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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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I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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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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Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
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It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
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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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Safer to be feared than loved.
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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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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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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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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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