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I used to be sure of things. Me, once i had all the answers. I wish i was a kid again, when i had all the answers

S. E. Hinton

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S. E. Hinton
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 22
Autobiographer
Film Actor
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Screenwriter
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
S. E. Hinton
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I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.
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I'm a good judge of my own work.
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But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there.
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the person in this picture is really me.
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They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
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I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.
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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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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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You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.
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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 wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.
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That's why people don't ever think to blame the Socs and are always ready to jump on us. We look hoody and they look decent. It could be just the other way around - half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean - but people usually go by looks.
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