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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

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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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Properly
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Movie
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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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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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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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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I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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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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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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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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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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Safer to be feared than loved.
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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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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 can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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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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