Nick Flynn Quotes

It takes an entire book to tell you what it was like. To see Robert De Niro play your father - it's not a simple answer. To see Julianne Moore play your mother. To see Paul Dano play you - that's an even more inscrutable question... he's amazing, he's totally amazing, but I can't really say if he's a good me or not.

Nick Flynn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 26, 1960

Topics

GoodFatherMotherSimpleAmazing

There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.

Jimmy Kimmel

MeWayAirWouldRunningABC

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Jim Hodges

WorkMeNextOutWork OutTakes

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

Andres Serrano

PossibleOutsideSystemWhenever

If there's foods I don't like, like kale, it doesn't mean that I'm not efficient in my diet; it just means I can eat broccoli and other green vegetables. That's what people don't understand, is that as long as you're having a variety of foods in your diet, you don't have to have the food of the week that's everyone going crazy about.

Maye Musk

FoodPeopleCrazyGreenDietYou

I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.

Amanda Lindhout

HealingWorldThinkFindOutLot

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

Steve Jobs

DayEvery DaySellingNowOverHour

I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

Steven Van Zandt

LifeTimePoliticalArtistFirst

WME and IMG both truly understand and value my music and Mosaert's creative visions; they are forward-thinking, all-encompassing, and thoughtful in how they envision me continuing to grow.

Stromae

MusicCreativeValueMeGrowHow

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

Rufus Wainwright

HabitYouTubeOutHorribleGoing

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

Matt Bomer

SchoolNew YorkThoughtDoingLiving

There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.

Moby

BelieveRichMusiciansTryingDone

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Jared Kushner

LoveFatherIdentityDifferent

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