"Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle."

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Source : Source: www.thechildrensbookreview.com

Tomie dePaola

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #People Quotes

“The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.”

Source : "Ross Kemp sheds dim light on Middle East" by Jim Shelley, www.mirror.co.uk. January 4, 2010.
“Great writers are the saints for the godless.”
“Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.”
“Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.”

Source : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.623, Springer Science & Business Media
“It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.”
“I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.”
“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics , etc. These, among others far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.”

Source : "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.
“There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.”

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