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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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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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.
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Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.
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Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.
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Cisco projects that in 2020, now just five years away, there will be seven billion people on the earth and 50 billion devices connected to the Internet. Six-and-a-half devices on average per person. As a father of five young adults and teenagers, I think we are - in my household, we've exceeded the 6.5 number.
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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
