Nick Flynn Quotes
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
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The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.
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There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
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Life, struck sharp on death,Makes awful lightning. His last word was, 'Love–'Love, my child, love, love!'–(then he had done with grief)'Love, my child.' Ere I answered he was gone,And none was left to love in all the world.
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Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
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An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
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My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.
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I think any politician, regardless of their religious conviction, has to be a megalomaniac - they have to be! Anyone who works in that kind of job has to be so full of himself to do that kind of thing.
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Financing for 'Shotgun Stories' was initiated with money from close friends and family. This is where the money to go into production came from. After production, a company called 'Upload Films' came on board and provided post-production funds and services. In both instances, people were taking a gamble on us.
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We're looking at our own sizes, we're looking at our friends' sizes.
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One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.
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I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
