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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
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Film Actor
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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...people get hurt in rumbles, maybe killed. I'm sick of it because it doesn't do any good. You can't win...even if you whip us. You'll still be where you were before- at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks. So it doesn't do any good, the fighting and the killing. It doesn't prove a thing.
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You know what the crummiest feeling you can have is? To hate the person you love the best in the world.
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We couldn't get along without him. We needed Johnny as much as he needed the gang. And for the same reason.
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I am a greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man do I have fun!
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You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset.
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Nothing sparkly can stay.
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let's do it for Johnny
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.
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Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden
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I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
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I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year
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