To me, Camille is an inherently kind person despite everything that’s happened to her. And you see that when you walk through the day with Camille. You see how she treats people. But she’s not running around saving babies and kittens just so the audience can be sure she’s a good person.
On how she hoped the television version of Sharp Objects would stay true to the character of Camille in “Gillian Flynn Isn’t Going to Write the Kind of Women You Want” https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/gillian-flynn-isnt-going-to-write-the-kind-of-women-you-want in Vanity Fair (2018 Jun 28)
“When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?”
Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.”
Source: A Little History of the World (2005), p. 90.
Variant: I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.”
Birgitte Trahelion
(15 October 1994)
Source: Fire Watch (1982), pp. 129-130 in The Nebula Awards 18 edited by Robert Silverberg
Conversation: Elon Musk on Wired Science (2007)
“I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.”
Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
Sonny Bill Williams regrets nothing http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/sonny-bill-williams-regrets-nothing-20131129-2yfvd.html, by Brad Walter, Sydney Morning Herald, dated 29 November 2013.
