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 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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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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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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People don't always want to have females as leaders.
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He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.
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You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
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If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.
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Still constant is a wondrous excellence.
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Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
