Nick Flynn Quotes

For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against my bare chest until a friend who was a doctor came by and asked what I was doing, and told me to put some clothes on that baby.

Nick Flynn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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FriendHomeMeBabyDoctorNight

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

John Abizaid

BossSpeakPlanningBetterDefeat

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

Melissa McBride

LoveGodCharacterDoingYouActing

I consider myself to be quite persuasive when I want.

Ana Patricia Botin

MyselfWantPersuasiveQuite

I was there for the making of Young Winston, but guns kept going off. I went 'Waaaaah,' and someone said, 'Please get the child off the set.'

Amanda Foreman

ChildSomeoneSaidYoungGunsGoing

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

Stephen Baldwin

MeDoingNewLordGetPrayers

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

Louis XIV

FatherDeathMeCalmRestYou

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn't leave until I was 18, and I've kept going back.

Louise Erdrich

BackLeaveUpGoingUntilGrew

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

Chloe Kim

IdentityUnderstandLittleWho

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

Cornelia Parker

EndDustEverythingIn The End

People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs.

Clayton M. Christensen

HealthPeopleActionSickThink

A lot of people felt I was getting work because I was Boy George. My response at the time was that there's a lot of DJs making records, they're not all making good records, but they have the right to do that.

Boy George

WorkGoodTimePeopleBoyRight

I'm not used to going out every single night, which you can do in New York.

Poppy Delevingne

New YorkNightYouNewSingleOut

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