Jerry Spinelli Quotes

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

Jerry Spinelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeResearchLibraryMy LifeFirst

The Marvel catalogue of 9,000 characters really is that rich. It isn't just a bunch of guys running around with capes and cowls who have secret identities and fight across the street from each other.

Jeph Loeb

FightRichStreetSecretJustWho

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

Melanie Lynskey

ActingPlaceDramaStudyingModern

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

Spike Lee

CollegeDreamSummerKnowAtlanta

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America?

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

SilenceAmericaEnvironmentYouFind

I was born in Faridabad but brought up in Delhi and Mumbai. My father had been living hand-to-mouth and literally slept on railway platforms when he came to Mumbai for the first time to become a film singer. My parents were both singers; they sang together and fell in love due to their singing.

Sonu Nigam

LoveFatherTimeTogetherParents

Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street.

Michael Moore

DailyMeetingsWallBoldStreet

I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.

Jon Anderson

MusicTechnologyKnowledgePeople

I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.

Jonathan Ames

PersonalityKindFiltersSomeProse

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Clint Eastwood

EnoughYouSellingAdaptWantActor

I play no instruments.

Clive Davis

PlayInstruments

I hope I'm always convincing when I act!

Colin Baker

HopeAlwaysActConvincing

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Bonnie Jo Campbell

ImaginationMeReadingWorryI Can

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