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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.
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Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.
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Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why.
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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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The thing is some girls think they can actually change guys
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but my dad said it was no excuse. But I love him! I had never seen my sister cry that much. No, you don't. I hate you! No, you don't. My dad can be very calm sometimes. He's my whole world. Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me. That was my mom.
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When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. He wiped my lip print off with his palm and gave me a look. He doesn't like the boys in the family to touch him. But I'm very glad that I did it anyway in case he dies. I never got to do that with my Aunt Helen.
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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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It's too bad you're not gay. Then again, if you were gay, I would never date you. You're a mess. You know, Patrick? If I were gay, I'd want to date you. Of course.
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It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.
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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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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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I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories.
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I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.
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and for the first time in my life I understand the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to believe me.
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And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.
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Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.
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I couldn't believe Sam actually got me a present because i honestly thought the I love you was it.
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I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.
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I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people participate.
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