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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No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.
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Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.
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And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
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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.
