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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.

James Dean

Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
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Adulthood Closer Dream High School Senior Thinking
A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
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Biy Easy Good Man Mark Not Proud Understand
I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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Arm Behind Behind Back Going Tied
What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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Blaze Clean Die Fast Glory Way
If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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Afraid Everything Goal Mark Ultimate Worthwhile
If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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Contribute Interfere might Nothing Progress World
What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.
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Believe Motivated Need Picture Psychologically Relationship Thinking Truth
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Choice Conditioning Crook Fish Great Impaled Swim Truly Water
How can you measure acting in inches?
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Acting Inch Measure
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Actual Early Government Implement Need Right Secure Something
A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
JAMES DEAN

Ashamed Confused Day Everything Feel One
I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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Bond Idealistic Lover Metaphysical Physical Relationship Sacrifice Ultimate
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Coem Delayed Doing Gratification Result
Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
JAMES DEAN

Broken Dream Forgive Laugh Life Quickly Regret Remember Short
Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
JAMES DEAN

Cigarette Drinking Idea Learn Preconceived Reality Smoke Smoking

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