Quote #50

[James Dean] was spectacularly talented, handsome in a fragile sort of way and absolutely outrageous. He was an original. Impish, compelling, magnetic, utterly winning one moment, obnoxious the next. Definitely gifted.

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  1. He seemed to capture that moment of youth, that moment where we're all desperately seeking to find ourselves.
  2. Sometimes we'd just sit and talk, or we'd listen to music for a couple of hours at a time without saying a word. Sometimes he'd get up and …
  3. He was the shit!
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