Nick Flynn Quotes
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The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
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I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.
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An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
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Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.
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In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
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Way to go, New York. One people. One planet. One love.
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If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.
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I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.
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I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.
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I hope that knowledge about past facts will continue to be passed down in a proper manner ... and will be used for future benefit.
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I always believe that my films should give some hope to the man who comes to watch them for those three hours. If he goes home on an optimistic note, I would feel satisfied at having done my duty.
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I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.
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Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.
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I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.
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How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.
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I'm not playing, am I? That tells you how I feel.
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We're all getting along better than ever, ... It's like night and day. We all get along extremely well. It's just all really positive and really good.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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It's OK to be down in the dumps - just don't stay there too long.
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I have plenty of places to go, but no place to be.
