Alex Flinn Quotes
Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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People trash talk me.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
