Ned Vizzini Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or three pounds a week and learned to cook - and I'm a good cook - because I had to. Even when I went on holiday, I stayed in other people's houses.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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We brought fashion, fun, and femininity to hip hop.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.
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I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'
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Because of 'World War Z' and 'The Walking Dead,' I can't pitch a modest little zombie film which is meant to be sociopolitical.
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
