S. E. Hinton Quotes
I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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A manifesto is different from a magazine.
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There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
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I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
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I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.
