Jack Prelutsky Quotes
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
