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After Sept. 11, there was a reticence and worrying about films that touched on war, and even more on terrorism.


Gillian Armstrong

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BOB HAWKE I share the President's commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.
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CHRISTINA ENGELA The war on terrorism is still his strong suit.
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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 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...
GILLIAN ANDERSON We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always f...
GILLIAN ANDERSON 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 I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't gene...
GILLIAN ANDERSON For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.
GILLIAN FLYNN In gratitude and joy, my heart sings better than ever in words I could.
GILLIAN DUCE It is that truth sometimes feels like cruelty to hear, makes it no less the truth.
GILLIAN DUCE I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.
GILLIAN JACOBS