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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
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As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.
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You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?
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I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.
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Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing - We accept the love we think we deserve.
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Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me?
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Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my other students. I mean in terms of anyone I’ve ever met.
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I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.
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I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.
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It's kind of like when you look at yourself in the mirror and you say your name. And it gets to a point where none of it seems real.
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Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.
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It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam.
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I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice.
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Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.
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Try to be a filter, not a sponge.
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I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
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Movies, by nature, are not subjective, they're objective.
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It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you.
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I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it, and I hope I get to do this for the rest of my life.
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