Rebecca Serle Quotes
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.
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Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
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Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fineHere comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on timeThere go the street lights bringin on the nightHere come the men faces hidden from the lightAll through the shadows they come and they goWith only one thing in commonThey got the fire down below.
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
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Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.
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What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
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There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage.
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I'm a bad dater - I'm just not good at it. It's so weird dating in this town. It's like high school. I get a lot of people who have their publicist call my agent to ask, 'Is she dating anyone?'
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To me the most important thing in a picture is roundness captured in height and breadth. Roundness in the plane, depth in the feeling of the plane.
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How long before we devise a means of telling horoscopes with gas lamps?
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.
