S. E. Hinton Quotes
Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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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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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Along with Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, these companies are in a race to become our 'personal assistant.' They want to wake us in the morning, have their artificial intelligence software guide us through our days, and never quite leave our sides.
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The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!
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Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
