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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In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.
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It seems a shallow observation, but… the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?
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Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.
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What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.
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It's not in my mission to work against Euroskepticism; it's my mission to work for fair markets. In antitrust, what is at stake is, in some ways, as old as Adam and Eve because it is about greed, to get more.
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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.
