Ned Vizzini Quotes

I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

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• A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Too Much

• People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Doing
  • Building

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Son
  • Speak
  • Walk

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Guitar
  • Trees
  • Grandfather

• Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Values
  • Wealth
  • Capitalism

• You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • You
  • Best
  • Looking

• Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Present

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • Political
  • Abuse

• I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Truth
  • Justice

• Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Time
  • World
  • Future

• 'No interviews. No panels. No speeches. No comments,' he Wasserman ordered his agents. 'Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.'

  

  Lew Wasserman

• Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Important
  • Lost

• There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

  

  William McFee
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Pessimistic

• My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.

  

  Ezekiel Emanuel
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Desire

• What's really great about the Archie Comics as a whole is that everybody is relatable.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • Great

• Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

  

  Aristotle
  • Character
  • Purpose
  • Things

• It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.

  

  Alison Hawthorne Deming
  • Voice
  • Animals
  • Writers

• I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Fall
  • Brain
  • Teacher