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" It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider. "

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" I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life. "

" I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that. "

" In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them. "

" I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way. "

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" Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there. "

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" Bitterness is so ugly. "

" Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing. "

" I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to. "

" Blood probably tastes like salty water, right? "

" I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular. "

" I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything. "

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" There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born. "

" I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode. "

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" I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. "

" With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller. "