Ned Vizzini Quotes
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
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Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.
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deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.
