Jerry Spinelli Quotes
Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
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I'm OCD beyond comparison.
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To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
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In his litany of famous immigrants who have contributed mightily to America, JFK does not mention a single woman, African or Asian. All are males and all were from Europe, except one West Indian: Alexander Hamilton. And JFK assures the nation, 'Immigrants would still be given tests for health, intelligence, morality and security...'
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That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.
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Most people are looking for a challenging, interesting job. I wanted a boring, undemanding job so that I could forget about it at 5, so that I would have something left over at the end of the day to do my own stuff.
