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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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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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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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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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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In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.
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Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.
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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.
