Ned Vizzini Quotes
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
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I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
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One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I was a highly successful writer and a great many properties accumulated during that period of time.
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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
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It's not a moment I want to remember, or see again.
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You can't be a human and a guy and not connect with Pippin... I often feel like Pippin. I come offstage sometimes like 'Oh my God, I've got to do this next time! I've gotta go there. I'm going to make this choice.'
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I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.
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I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!
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Persistence is a secret weapon for everyone.
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Being a mom is hard, I think a lot of working moms feel that way.
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When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
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The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.
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At the end of the day, you have to be yourself, you have to say and stand for what you believe in, you have to be willing to get up and go ahead and take the slings and arrows and just try to persist through them, because it's apparently an inevitable part of our American democracy.
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What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
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A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.
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I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
