Jerry Spinelli Quotes
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.
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I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
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I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.
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When I train, I erase all the limits and expectations of what I can do. I am powerful and anything is possible.
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I became a children's author by accident.
