Jerry Spinelli Quotes

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

Jerry Spinelli

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• I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • History
  • Mother

• Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • See
  • Product
  • Common Sense

• I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Kind
  • Personality
  • Find

• Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Day

• I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Home
  • Relationship

• I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Husband

• In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Rock

• My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Father
  • Single
  • Orchestra

• I studied drama.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Drama
  • Studied

• The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Real
  • Unexpected

• Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Peace
  • Look

• We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and oppression; we would seek allies, of whatever colour, as long as they were totally agreed on our liberation aims.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Long
  • Commitment
  • Strength

• Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People

• We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Question

• You can tirelessly keep on reading the same author, revere, admire, praise him, exalt him to the skies, know and recite each of his sentences by heart, and yet remain completely unaffected by him, as if he had never demanded anything of you and not said anything at all.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Heart
  • Reading
  • Author

• What many single male 23-year-old entrepreneurs don't realize is that family tech is a 'big freaking business'. As in, trillions of dollars.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Family
  • Business
  • Single

• I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Opportunity
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

  

  Matthew Bright
  • Different
  • Done
  • Reading

• You know when people say, 'How do you go from Kanye to Wiz Khalifa - that's a downgrade.' But the only question I can ask them is: 'Have you ever dated Kanye? Because I have, and believe me, I did not downgrade at all. Not in any aspect, at all.'

  

  Amber Rose
  • People
  • Believe
  • Question

• That's why 'The Bourne Identity' has that sort of shaky style, because for the most part, Matt Damon and I were sneaking around Paris and shooting where we didn't have permits.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Why
  • Style
  • Identity

• But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Earth
  • Vampire
  • Rent

• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

• Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Work
  • Lives
  • Clock

• I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

  

  Jerry Spinelli