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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Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.
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Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.
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God gets the easiest performance reviews.
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The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
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It's not an easy topic because it gets at some fairly delicate issues. The source of some of the smuggling, who's involved, means it is probably not that easy a topic to tackle.
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I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
