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John Green (1977 - )

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All of us are sort of orphans, just the ostensibly adult variety, trying to figure out how to make martinis and friends and art together.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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As an actor, you want to be as transparent as possible, but that also of course means that people can see all the way inside you.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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Emojis exist to clarify language, but the real problem is that no one actually wants to be clear.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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How can you respond to a betrayal when all the responses make your life worse?: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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How do you paint night when it is essentially invisible? How do you display, or articulate, what can't be seen or heard or smelled or felt?: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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I do not want to want to be loved by strangers, but I do not want to want most of what I want.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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I love Warhol's work because it is surface-deep, because it is about how a repeated image -- whether it's Jackie Onassis or an electric chair -- loses its meaning in repetition...All of this is true, but saying it again and again, it begins to feel like a lie. It begins to feel like a betrayal.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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I was doing it because it looked cool, even though I was the only person who could see how cool it looked.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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I wondered whether loneliness is an inevitable by-product of success, because nobody else really knows what it's like to be you, and anyway you can't be sure whether people want to be near you because you're you or because you're a success, which is its own kind of aloneness.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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Maybe a movie is good if it lets us feel things that are otherwise hard to feel.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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Maybe telling stories is what we do the way swimming in the ocean is what sea turtles do.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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Movies can give us a window into a deeper self, that way-down place that hurts so bad we can only glimpse it in fragments.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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Problems of privilege are still problems.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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Someone told me once that when your mother is dead, you are living both lives -- your life and hers.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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The dead are not in the past, not really, because you carry them around with you.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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The less serious your job, the more seriously you must take it.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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The thing about alcohol is it quells my anxiety in the short run and worsens my anxiety in the long run. This is also the thing about weed, and the thing about Instagram.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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The worse the script the more interesting that job becomes, because you've got to find a way in.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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There's something akin to that in writing. The feeling of losing oneself, that it isn't even you writing the words but you are instead a kind of aqueduct through which the words flow.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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This is part of what movies can be, a shared experience for people who don't know how to share experiences. Movies are something we watch together when we can't look at each other, when we don't know what to say to each other. They are a site of shared enchantment.: John Green, Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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