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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.
Gillian Flynn
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Gillian Flynn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 10
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Gillian Schieber Flynn
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A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
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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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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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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
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