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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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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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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Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.
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Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come...
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
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It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.
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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.
