Jerry Spinelli Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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You have to be a star to be in this business.
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My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.
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The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.
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Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.
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No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.
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In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.
