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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Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. (23 February 1940)
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What is poetry which does not save nations or people?
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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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.
