Tomie dePaola famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
I really wished he hadn't made me hate to read the Bible. Having it shoved down my throat all my life had made me bitter toward reading it. I believed it, but my dad had used it to his benefit too many times and ignored the parts in there that would point out his wrongs. Like judging Beau without even knowing him. That was in the Bible too.
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
Life is more important than 'what film I do next.
I think it's really important to live in the moment.
You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

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