Ned Vizzini Quotes
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.
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I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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I quite like androgyny.
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Everyone deserves to feel good about themselves, and if you don’t then start because everyone is beautiful.
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Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
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Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.
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I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
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You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
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Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived. I'm still learning all the time.
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In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
