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I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.


Ally Sheedy

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ALLY CARTER I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale
ALLY CARTER Tell me Zach.” I don’t know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. “And don’t...
ALLY CARTER It's all right to wonder.
ALLY CONDIE Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
ALLY CONDIE I love you."
lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going bac...
ALLY CONDIE Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.
ALLY CONDIE How can we appreciate anything fully when overwhelmed with too much?
ALLY CONDIE What is it about your voice that
makes me want to hear you speak?
ALLY CONDIE I am trapped in glass and I want to break out and breath deep but I´m too afraid that it will hurt.
ALLY CONDIE No one should die alone.
ALLY CONDIE His lips move silently, and I know what he says: the words of a poem that only two people in the wor...
ALLY CONDIE I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who...
ALLY CONDIE Red is the first color of spring. It's the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.
ALLY CONDIE It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
ALLY CONDIE Our time together feels like a storm, like a wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle bu...
ALLY CONDIE I came up on the screen, too, Cassia. But he was the one you chose to see.
ALLY CONDIE Ky can play this game. He can play all of their games, including the one in front of him that he jus...
ALLY CONDIE So in the middle of all the noise, I point to the sky. I hope he understands what I mean, because I ...
ALLY CONDIE Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?
ALLY CONDIE