Nick Flynn Quotes
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.
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There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
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I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.
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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
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I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.
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I have been told that Your Excellency follows the teachings of Jesus (PBUH)
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We manipulate fabric.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
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Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.
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Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.
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All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
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Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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Mitt Romney has a history of being a great job creator. Secondly, he was a great governor. He went from billions of dollars in the hole when he became governor to billions of dollars in surplus when he left. And he went from the loss of tens of thousands jobs when he became governor to the creation of 40,000 new jobs when he left office.
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
