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You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

James Dean

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
JAMES DEAN

Charm Doe Hankering Include Life Purpose Society
It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
JAMES DEAN

Child Children Function Involved School Theatrical Thinking
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
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
I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
JAMES DEAN

Demand Kid Parent Picture Psychological Thinking
You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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Ground Like Own Reach Really Show Try
You’re tearing me apart!
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Apart Emotion Feeling Training
To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Before Course Cradle Neurosis Set Thinking
I didn’t know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother’s going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it.
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Boy Know Man Mother Old Stumbling Tried
Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World
I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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Country Day Four Hour Texan Twenty Want Wish
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Coem Delayed Doing Gratification Result
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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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
Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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Feel Only Racing Time Whole
Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
JAMES DEAN

Dark Film Inside Light Open Tear Test Work

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

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You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

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