Nadine Franklin

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Nadine Franklin
Quoted in: 
The Edge of Seventeen
Actress: 
Hailee Steinfeld

Everyone just wants to feel important in life. Thing is, no matter how important they are, there's always gonna be someone more important. People get so uptight about that. Oh, no, they're better than me. It's like, god, they don't realize important doesn't matter. It's confidence. When confidence breaks into the room... It wins every single time. Doesn't matter if it's real or pulling it straight out of their ass. People are dumb. They don't know the difference.

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Everyone just wants to feel important in life. Thing is, no matter how important they are, there's always gonna be someone more important. People get so uptight about that. Oh, no, they're better than me. It's like, god, they don't realize important doesn't matter. It's confidence. When confidence breaks into the room... It wins every single time. Doesn't matter if it's real or pulling it straight out of their ass. People are dumb. They don't know the difference.
Everyone just wants to feel important in life. Thing is, no matter how important they are, there's always gonna be someone more important. People get so uptight about that. Oh, no, they're better than me. It's like, god, they don't realize important doesn't matter. It's confidence. When confidence breaks into the room... It wins every single time. Doesn't matter if it's real or pulling it straight out of their ass. People are dumb. They don't know the difference.
The Edge of Seventeen
Uncertainty
Importance
Human, People

I don't wanna take up a ton of your time... but I'm gonna kill myself. I just thought that someone should know. I don't know how this works. I'm probably gonna jump off an overpass in front of a semi or a u-haul, not a bus, I'm not gonna be a dick and make people watch. But it has to be big, it's gotta be so big that it just – done! – kills me. Lights out. 'Cause if it just maims me and I'm like well, how's that good for anyone? Then I gotta find a nurse to smother me. How am I gonna get across "smothering" if I'm... We don't need to get caught up in the minutia, I just thought that an adult... you should know.

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The Edge of Seventeen
Suicide

– You're always in a shit mood and you're a really shitty teacher. You put zero effort into everything you do and there's no way you're proud of that! Look at you, look at... like, you do nothing! Look at your hair! You don't even do your hair 'cause you don't have any hair! You're bald! You know what? You know why you're not married? Because bald men are gross and disgusting, and especially the ones that make $45.000 a year! What?!
– I've been doing this 23 years... and you're the first person to ever underestimate my salary.

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The Edge of Seventeen
Nadine Franklin
Max Bruner

You know what? I'm gona go ahead and I'm gona tell you the real reason I'm having lunch with you today. You see, I don't really have any friends at the moment. And to be completely honest with you, I'm not interested at all. My entire generation is a bunch of mouth-breather. They literaly have a seizure if you take their phone away for a second. They can't communicate without emojis. And they actualy think that the world wants to know that they are, "Eating a taco, exclamation point, smiley face, smiley face." Like we give a fuck. I am an old soul. I like old music and old movies and even old people. Bottom line is I have nothing in common with the people out there, and they have nothing in common with me.

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You know what? I'm gona go ahead and I'm gona tell you the real reason I'm having lunch with you today. You see, I don't really have any friends at the moment. And to be completely honest with you, I'm not interested at all. My entire generation is a bunch of mouth-breather. They literaly have a seizure if you take their phone away for a second. They can't communicate without emojis. And they actualy think that the world wants to know that they are, "Eating a taco, exclamation point, smiley face, smiley face." Like we give a fuck. I am an old soul. I like old music and old movies and even old people. Bottom line is I have nothing in common with the people out there, and they have nothing in common with me.
You know what? I'm gona go ahead and I'm gona tell you the real reason I'm having lunch with you today. You see, I don't really have any friends at the moment. And to be completely honest with you, I'm not interested at all. My entire generation is a bunch of mouth-breather. They literaly have a seizure if you take their phone away for a second. They can't communicate without emojis. And they actualy think that the world wants to know that they are, "Eating a taco, exclamation point, smiley face, smiley face." Like we give a fuck. I am an old soul. I like old music and old movies and even old people. Bottom line is I have nothing in common with the people out there, and they have nothing in common with me.
The Edge of Seventeen