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I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.

S. E. Hinton

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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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Get smart and nothing can touch you.
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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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...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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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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I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
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Dally was so real he scared me.
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If you enjoy reading something, read it.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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They used to be buddies, I thought, they used to be friends, and now they hate each other because one has to work for a living and the other comes from the West Side. They shouldn't hate each other.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.
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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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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. Tuff enough, he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
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let's do it for Johnny
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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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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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