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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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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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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My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research.
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One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.
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We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.
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Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
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I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn’t know I had that power.
