Gillian Flynn Quotes

It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do.

Gillian Flynn

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I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.

John Carpenter

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This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.

Jeffrey Jones

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I've just kind of been used to carrying movies. I look back and I'm just used to being in every single scene in a lot of pictures.

Michael Douglas

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I've learned and grown as a songwriter.

Luis Fonsi

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I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

Jon Glaser

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I had a bike as a kid, and when I worked in Manhattan - I had a 10-speed - I rode from downtown to 68th and Madison for my day job. I knew about fighting traffic, but nothing about racing.

Dennis Christopher

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It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

Christopher Meloni

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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.

Chris Squire

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Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others.

Antony Beevor

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People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was bad in that movie.' We see so many films that we can tell who's faking it. But with art, we can't always tell.

William Quigley

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I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Pierce Brosnan

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