S. E. Hinton Quotes

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

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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.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.

  

  Fleur East
  • White
  • Bread
  • Rubbish

• When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Honor
  • New
  • Ring

• Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Golf

• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fear
  • Intimacy
  • Thrive

• I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Think
  • Me
  • Idle

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• 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.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Death
  • September
  • Innocence

• 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.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Beginning
  • Effort
  • Voice

• I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Good
  • Christmas
  • Looking

• God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

  

  Walter Kirn
  • God
  • Character
  • Enough

• 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.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Parents
  • Baby
  • Strict

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Great
  • English

• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Conviction
  • Turn

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Difference

• Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Sing
  • Tail

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Sun
  • Inspired
  • Blue

• I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

  

  Yuna
  • Me
  • Criticism
  • Down

• I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Ashamed

• Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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