Dan Yaccarino Quotes
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.
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Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?
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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
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I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.
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If you have children and you hear about a child being kidnapped, it makes you really appreciate your own children. It makes you want to spend time with them. But I think anything that shakes you out of your daily patterns in a good thing.
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I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.
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As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.
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I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.
