Jerry Spinelli Quotes
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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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.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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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.
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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.
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My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
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I studied drama.
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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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.
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Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
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We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yes, there are things that I can't change, but the things I can, I'm going to do everything in my power to work very hard through them and come out stronger on the other side.
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I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.
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Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.
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During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.
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No patriotism is genuine that is merely partisan or provincial.
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I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.
