Aron Flam Quotes
My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
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For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
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I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!
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I don't have any one way to tell a story. I don't have any rule book of how it's supposed to be done. But I've always said that if a story would be more emotionally involving told, beginning, middle, and end, I'll tell it that way. I won't jigsaw it, just to show what a clever boy I am. I don't do anything in my script just to be clever.
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Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.
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… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?
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The first thing out of Fidel Castro's mouth to me, he looked me right in the eye and said, 'You're a man of great courage.'
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My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.
