Ned Vizzini Quotes
I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
Quotes to Explore
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
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In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.
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Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.
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I love seeing the fans of the music that I make.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.
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I like pop music. Earnestly. Most of the greatest technicians, mix engineers, and players are working in pop music.
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The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine.
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Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some circumstances is to advocate that thinking be discarded - which leaves one in the position of attempting to do a job after throwing away the required instrument.
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I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
