Tomie dePaola Quotes

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.

Tomie dePaola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 15, 1934

Topics

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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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If you only take offense when the president of your party is compared to Hitler, then you're part of the problem.

John Avlon

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Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

John Cusack

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My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

John Hurt

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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Robert Morgan

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Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically.

John Requa

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David Ben-Gurion established the Israeli intelligence community in June of 1948, just three weeks after the establishment of Israel and in the midst of war.

Ronen Bergman

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Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.

Luis Gutierrez

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Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is very surprised by the way it turns out, since often it turns out better than he expected; often his thought carries further than he reckoned.

Joseph Brodsky

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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Desiderius Erasmus

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Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.

David Zayas

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