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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
Anymore
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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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To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
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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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Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.
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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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Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
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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 suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.
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There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
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Nick is like a good stiff drink: He gives everything the correct perspective.
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I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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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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Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.
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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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What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
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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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It’s humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.
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