"How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?"

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Neal Shusterman

#Choices Quotes #Shade Quotes #Figures Quotes

“It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.”
“You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.”
“You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.”
“See into life, don't just look at it”
“You can put a dog in a scene and everyone's going to be better, I guarantee it. And if they're not better, just shoot the dog.”
“I watched horror movies way too young and one of my favorite horror movies was The Shining. Jack Nicholson's character in that just bore a hole in my brain, his weird, maniacal controlled stuff. Obviously Mara in Village of the Damned wasn't an alcoholic and didn't have emotional, crazy outbursts. She was very non-emotional. But it was that sort of evil that I was tapping into.”
“I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.”

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“I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.”

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