Jerry Spinelli Quotes

I think I have a pretty goofy profile for a writer. It seems to me most writers were reading 'Little Women' when they were 6 months old. At the age of a lot of my readers, I wanted to be a major league baseball player. I didn't read much.

Jerry Spinelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 1, 1941

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Meeting people who want to start a charity, help out their families, or raise money for a good cause has been really fun.

Joe Jonas

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Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

John Corbett

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I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.

Anna D. Shapiro

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I think it's important to say typing in the computer is like the last, last phase of my writing process. That's kind of the fun part. Well, it's all somewhat fun, I suppose. But usually what happens is I think about a movie for at least a year - maybe a couple more - and I don't put anything down.

Jeff Nichols

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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Johnny Cash

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When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume significantly unhealthier rather than healthy calories as a result.

Chuck Norris

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When I heard 'Rockabye,' I was just blown away. It had been a long time since I had heard a song that had a message like that in it - about being a single parent and caring for your child.

Anne-Marie

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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

William Wycherley

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Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.

Shia LaBeouf

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I was always extremely independent growing up.

Mark Foster

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I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

Lydia Lunch

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We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

Ken Starr

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