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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My favorite album is 'Abbey Road.' I love 'Hey Jude.'
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The venerability, reliability, and utility of truth is something which a person demonstrates for himself from the contrast with the liar, whom no one trusts and everyone excludes. As a 'rational' being, he now places his behavior under the control of abstractions. He will no longer tolerate being carried away by sudden impressions, by intuitions.
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The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
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I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
