Alex Flinn Quotes
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
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I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
