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.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • She
  • Best

• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• 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.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Time
  • God
  • Art

• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Synthesis
  • Biscuits

• 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.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Want

• The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Earth
  • Best
  • Place

• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Future
  • Language
  • Moon

• As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Child

• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Free
  • Reality
  • Unknown

• I tell you, the paparazzi would not be sitting outside if they realized I was the most boring person in Hollywood.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Hollywood
  • Paparazzi

• I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Cigarette
  • Nine

• You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Success
  • Me
  • Failure

• 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.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Pressure

• Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • She
  • Truth
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Stone
  • Sunrise
  • Rome

• My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Actor
  • Living
  • Plan

• I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Always
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Red

• When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

  

  Marcel Achard
  • People

• Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Service
  • Mum
  • Secret Service

• I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Good
  • Picture

• I think that technological tools that filmmakers use to tell stories, in a perfect world, need to become invisible. When it's brand new and it's never been seen before and you're birthing this stuff, it's very much on people's minds.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • Perfect
  • Before
  • Invisible

• Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

  

  Ami Bera
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Listening

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

  

  Rebecca Serle
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