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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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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Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.
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Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells people who you want them to think you are. How you vote tells people who you really are deep inside.
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You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes.
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Winning is a habit.
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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.
