S. E. Hinton Quotes
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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The world needs some help.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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I think it's good to conquer the fears.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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I know that I received so much help from God to become that kind of person that I wanted to be. That's honestly the message that I think is in a lot of my songs.
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Speaking personally, as a first-time female founder, I would not be where I am today without an incredible network of fellow founders who have shared their challenges, advice, and hacks with me.
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I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.
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Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
