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

• I tend to have a long con when it comes to romance, in part because I like the build-up as much as the payoff, and in part because I think there are a wealth of relationships out there (friend, sibling, rival, etc.), and straight-up romance interests me less than tension.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Up
  • Long
  • Friend

• But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.

  

  Alessandro Manzoni
  • History
  • Man
  • Politics

• The Internet should be an open platform where you are free to go where you want and say and do what you want without having to ask anyone's permission.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Free

• Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Tea

• He who controls the past controls the future.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Future
  • Past
  • Controls

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

  

  Jerry Spinelli