I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it did more than that was kind of an incredibly pleasant surprise.
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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that yo... YOLANDA ADAMS Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought... T.I. When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simulta... PAOLO BACIGALUPI I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never qui... GILLIAN FLYNN You almost feel dirty for reading [Gillian Flynn's] books, like you've been forced to join your cons... TARRYN FISHER I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movi... ADAM MCKAY Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente... GILLIAN FLYNN It had turned me into a knee-jerk suckup to authority. Mom, Dad, teachers: Whatever makes your job e... GILLIAN FLYNN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and i... MEGHAN O'ROURKE All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and ... PAT RILEY I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years... IAN HISLOP Barbecue is an incredibly democratic food. It's cheaper than McDonald's in many places and f... MICHAEL POLLAN The way I see it: Why get out of bed when you can read about people who got out of bed? -ERIC FOREMAN THAT 70'S SHOW My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prov... GEORGE SAUNDERS All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and ra... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is k... JACK GLEESON My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction ou... LEONARD NIMOY I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now... ALFRED MOLINA Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed ... THERESA REBECK If I talk to a girl, it's assumed that I'm having a scene with her. If I don't, then it&... SHAH RUKH KHAN I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the f... SALMAN RUSHDIE I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff... but I would love to do something like the series that I d... RAGHAV BAHL I remember years ago being on the set of 'Dreamcatcher' and not only did I have such great a... TIMOTHY OLYPHANT I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Daz... ROB THOMAS I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES We can play now… just do that and that little piece of kinky thoughts… few perverts add and you ... DEYTH BANGER My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of co... DAVID RUSSELL I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I fee... IGGY AZALEA I'm kind of the model that everyone thought would always be the Guess, 'Sports Illustrated... GIGI HADID Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shout... ROSE MCGOWAN From sublime affairs of state to the stark and vulgar popular culture of our own contemporary lives,... ALAN CHEUSE I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's ... PETER WEIR I paint. I have been painting since I was kid. If I hadn't gone into radio when I did, I probabl... BOB ELLIOTT I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's ... SUFJAN STEVENS You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a ... DONATELLA VERSACE 'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria a... CORY HARDRICT I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not... SONIA SOTOMAYOR I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'Th... TAYLOR LAUTNER When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the wri... STEVIE NICKS I'm kind of lucky that we've finished shooting 'Cougar Town,' so I'm able to kin... BUSY PHILIPPS Sometimes, I get so annoyed when other people brag. And sometimes, I know that I'm better than t... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a bette... GARTH RISK HALLBERG I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that... NAT WOLFF I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a ... JUNOT DIAZ The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind. INGRID NEWKIRK We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that... CAROLINE DHAVERNAS People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I wou... AL-MAYASSA BINT HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL-THANI I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting ... MICHELLE PFEIFFER But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I neve... FISHER STEVENS I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked. MAE WEST Since I'm so slow, I have to be fairly choosy about the projects I take on, and it can't be ... LEE BERMEJO It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books... STEPHEN COVEY When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. ... IMANI HAKIM I think we need a Muslim 'Bachelor' or 'Bachelorette.' I think that's what would... MAYSOON ZAYID When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that mus... NATALIE COLE I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes&... NEIL STRAUSS I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie 'Christine,' and I would'... HARRY DEAN STANTON If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's ... CAITY LOTZ I have a very specific memory of watching 'Singing in the Rain,' and looking at myself in th... KAT EDMONSON At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to as... NAYVADIUS CASH Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an odd... MARY ROACH I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drug... ELTON JOHN The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a mome... DEL CLOSE I never heard Jack Nicklaus say, 'I'm a great player,' or Tiger Woods, as a matter of fa... ARNOLD PALMER From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be... STEPHEN LABERGE The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. FINLEY PETER DUNNE Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than i... ANDY GOLDSWORTHY My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would a... KACY CATANZARO If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And... SETH MACFARLANE I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more ... ELEANOR CATTON I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today ... WARREN FARRELL 'Free Agents' was an awesome experience. I never play the glam girl in anything, so that was... KATHRYN HAHN What would you do in order to marry Sophia Loren? I think anyone would become French to marry Sophia... EDOARDO PONTI If 'Befikre' was representing the new-age youth of India and romance as what it was claiming... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT I get a lot of girls who say, 'I just want to be a model so badly.' And I think: 'You ca... CARA DELEVINGNE 'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but i... DONNY OSMOND
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My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spi... GILLIAN FLYNN I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbin... GILLIAN FLYNN I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s becau... GILLIAN FLYNN I'm definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow. GILLIAN ZINSER I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-... GILLIAN JACOBS A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics. GILLIAN JACOBS Just as sure as each knot on a fisherman's net does not physically connect so far as each knot forms... GILLIAN DUCE Love reached across space and time to find you. You are the smile of a million stars. GILLIAN DUCE I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that wa... 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