Jerry Spinelli Quotes
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.
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People take things so seriously.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Let us have peace.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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'Ralph's Party' was a romantic comedy, and at the end of it, the two main characters, Ralph and Jen, kiss for the first time and think they're going to be happy together. Then, 10 years later, I wrote a sequel in which they've been together for 10 years and are about to split up.
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I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
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I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.
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The thing I always liked best about touring abroad was constantly running into different people, different cultures, different foods. It really pumped up my batteries... I'm constantly playing to a demographically diverse audience... one generation is driven by nostalgia, the next by curiosity. And that's why I have no plans to retire.
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Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.
