S. E. Hinton Quotes
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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The voice doesn't take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
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Depression means that you have no point of view.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
