Stephanie Perkins Quotes
Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I was a tomboy.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
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People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.