Ned Vizzini Quotes
They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!
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Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.
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I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.
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I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
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I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of, 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.
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Look - I'm an African-American. I'm black. But I'm just looking at the character and trying to find his soul, his energy. If you can wipe away the blanket of skin and flesh that people tend to see, and look inside for the essence of the soul, then that's the work I'm doing. That's the work I always do.
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That’s the thing about terrorism – it works. Especially for the terrorists – they might not get what they want but it feels damn good trying.
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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.
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I like the law. I like the part that's about reasoning, about persuasion, about telling stories, about trying to build structures that fall within rules.
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When you're a child, and you're growing up, and you're mimicking a certain character, or you're trying to live and breathe a certain character on set for eight years that are also your formative years, you oftentimes take a lot of who you're playing into your real life and kind of become that thing.
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I think one of the toughest things is that balancing act of trying to maintain relationships while being on the road.
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I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
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Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.
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Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
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Our business model is primarily that of consulting, engineering, system integration, and managed services.
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People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.
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They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.
