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Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.


Gillian Anderson

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Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
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BETH GIVENS I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.
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EARL NIGHTINGALE We volunteer to work for the love and joy of service.
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GILLIAN FLYNN So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.
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GILLIAN FLYNN Empathetic silence is one of the most underused weapons in the world.
GILLIAN FLYNN Money is wasted on the rich.
GILLIAN FLYNN People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.
GILLIAN FLYNN Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
GILLIAN FLYNN Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.
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GILLIAN FLYNN I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.
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GILLIAN FLYNN Find yourself and you will find your freedom.
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GILLIAN FLYNN There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
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GILLIAN FLYNN I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.
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GILLIAN FLYNN She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyon...
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GILLIAN FLYNN Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Gi...
GILLIAN FLYNN I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.
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GILLIAN APPS People talk about it being so heavy, but right now it feels weightless around my neck.
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GILLIAN ZINSER You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.
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GILLIAN FLYNN I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.
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GILLIAN CROSS 'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.
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GILLIAN FLYNN We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
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GILLIAN JACOBS Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest re...
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GILLIAN FLYNN I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, a...
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GILLIAN FLYNN Be the peace you would like to see in the world.
GILLIAN DUCE I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horr...
GILLIAN JACOBS People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the wor...
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 I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, s...
GILLIAN JACOBS I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance p...
GILLIAN JACOBS '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 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 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 like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.
GILLIAN JACOBS 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 We're kind of naive about that. We don't care about anybody else. We just try to do what we can do.
GILLIAN KIEFT Light your life with purpose and all shadows will disappear.
GILLIAN DUCE For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.
GILLIAN FLYNN