S. E. Hinton Quotes
Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.
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Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
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I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.
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I think people really don't like cops so much; they're kind of rude to them or treat them like they can't see them.
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Greasers will still be greasers and Socs will still be Socs. Sometimes I think it's the ones in the middle that are really the lucky stiffs.
