Ned Vizzini Quotes
Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
Quotes to Explore
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I started drama in high school.
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I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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This is the key thing that has always been misunderstood about me. All this fucking crap they said I did ... I only did it because I believed I was playing the actual music that was appropriate and good to reflect that time and place. ... Frankly, I've always felt I was completely innocent.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.
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It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God’s finger crushes against the wall.
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I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the ground running. I write everything out. I take the text and I very methodically go through, and that tends to put it into my head a little bit more solidly than if I just glanced at it and hoped for the best.
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I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.
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I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.
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Life's too short and too complicated for people behind desks, people behind masks to be ruining other people's lives, initiating force against other people's lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, whatever.
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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
