Ned Vizzini Quotes
Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.
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We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
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On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.
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What's it to you if I love you?
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Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
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There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them.
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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
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I didn't know there was this sort of immediate camaraderie that's very intense when you make a movie because you're all in this together. You tend to get really close to people really fast.
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I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.
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To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?
