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A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'


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GILLIAN FLYNN Be the peace you would like to see in the world.
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GILLIAN FLYNN The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my sin...
GILLIAN FLYNN His name is synonymous with Southern California, making him a perfect fit to get the state of Califo...
GILLIAN ZUCKER We wanted them to shoot jumpers and they made them. They were shooting 3s lights out.
MIKE GILLIAN 'Blue Monday' is a dance track with a hint of melancholy.
GILLIAN GILBERT I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter....
GILLIAN FLYNN Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'S...
GILLIAN FLYNN I try in my life to follow my heart in terms of what moves me and what is important to me. I know wh...
GILLIAN ANDERSON David Duchovny and I and creator Chris Carter are determined to do another. Hopefully, by the time w...
GILLIAN ANDERSON I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my...
GILLIAN ANDERSON In England, it's much easier to flip between doing television and film. It doesn't ruin one's career...
GILLIAN ANDERSON Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.
GILLIAN SHIELDS The most profound one is you cannot make a report without a foundation. You cannot make an unjustifi...
GILLIAN BUTLER David (Duchovny) and I and (creator/producer) Chris Carter have been excited about and determined to...
GILLIAN ANDERSON She was scared. I pictured the police knocking, and here I was with a girl I'd been fucking the morn...
GILLIAN FLYNN Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, ...
GILLIAN FLYNN She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
GILLIAN FLYNN When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world.
GILLIAN DUCE When I joined New Order, I was made to feel equal to everyone else in the band so I didn't feel ...
GILLIAN GILBERT The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
GILLIAN FLYNN Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
GILLIAN FLYNN I could see the cat was definitely on the steps. Still on the steps, 20 minutes after Carl's call. T...
GILLIAN FLYNN There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.
GILLIAN FLYNN The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people....
GILLIAN FLYNN Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back o...
GILLIAN FLYNN I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITE...
GILLIAN FLYNN A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
GILLIAN FLYNN There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was ...
GILLIAN FLYNN I hadn't read the novel Bleak House . I'd read Dickens, but not this novel. I'd read several of his ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON Let's practice what we preach, and with the acceptance that we expect from others, let's stop being ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON The best relationships -- the ones that last -- are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendshi...
GILLIAN ANDERSON Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hea...
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