David Small Quotes

• .... When you have no voice, you don't exist

  David Small

  Life, Voice

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• Lo curioso de los sueños recurrentes es que, no importa cuántas veces sueñes lo mismo, siempre te coge por sorpresa.

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  Dream, Odd Things, Matter

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• Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.

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  Simple, Talking, Leader

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• What I try to do in my picture books is to be all-inclusive, but not exclusive, to not exclude the kid and not exclude the parents from the experience. And it's not a very easy task; you can't find stories that work that way too much of the time.

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  Book, Kids, Parent

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or another. So I think there's a lot of kids who relate to my story. They also relate to the fact that I got out of it. And I tell them that my refuge from all that was books - the library was my safe place. And the art room was my safe place because there I knew what I was doing.

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  Art, Book, Kids

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it would be better to turn all that stuff into dreams; it would be better if I was sleeping, because dreams become good metaphors for what's really going on inside of you.

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  Sueño, Sueño, Noche

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

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  Profesor, Arte, Escuela

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes a commonplace old life and makes it all somehow more interesting. And hopefully I can do that in a way that touches a lot of people in their lives, too.

  David Small

  Writing, Character, People

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If, for some reason, I cannot bear to work on something that needs to get done, I'm not going to force that. I'll just take a mental vacation. I think the best solution sometimes to working out a problem is to walk squarely away from it.

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  Thinking, Vacation, Work Out

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• You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's never a matter of laziness or inability. It's just a matter of believing that what I'm doing is worthwhile, that it matters.I just make myself work. I just make myself go to work, whether I feel like it or not.

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  Believe, Laziness, Blocked

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• Russell Hoban created a tremendous marriage of characters and philosophy. The plots, the wind-up toy characters, the settings, they all work together to support basically a dark vision that the world is kind of a dump. And we all have to find our ways of surviving in it and of making it a better place. It's a world where we don't have much help, other than what we bring to the table. It's a world in which brotherly love counts more than anything else.

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  Philosophy, Character, Dark

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• One of the glories of doing the book So You Want to Be President? was the shifts in tone, where I was able to be humorous and then very serious. And the impeachment page is certainly the best example of that. I didn't have to think too much about how to present this one. I got the idea right away that a good way of showing the shame of President Nixon would be to put him down in the shadows under the Lincoln Monument, with Lincoln sort of glaring down at him from an elevated, better-lit position.

  David Small

  Humorous, Book, Thinking

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• By the time that book So You Want to Be President? came along, we had already had enough presidents that had shown us that presidents are human beings. So I felt I was contributing to the common knowledge there, but not revealing anything really new - sort of supporting what everybody already was suspicious of.

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  Book, President, Common

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• I open journal, I look at the picture and I remember where I was. And I remember the time of day, the temperature of the air, what music was playing, or who was talking to me, or who was looking over my shoulder and what conversations we had and the smells of the earth and the time of year it was. It's all there for me in a way that we don't get looking at a snapshot. Most of us look back at a snapshot from ten years ago and say, where was that? We don't even remember where we were.

  David Small

  Earth, Remember

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• I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.

  David Small

  Escribir

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Art - I had never thought of that as a career because it was like something I did so naturally, and it was fluid, and it is. And even though I still admire literature as the superior art form, I have to admit that art, for me, that's it; that's what I'm good at, and that's what I should be concentrating on.

  David Small

  Art, Literature, Admire

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Creo que el dibujo es realmente la base de todo arte, incluso de la escultura, el cine. Los mejores cineastas siempre han sido capaces de esbozar sus ideas en guiones gráficos. Y el blanco y negro en particular es un buen punto de partida.

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  Art, Black And White, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Toda la base del trabajo en blanco y negro y en grises se convirtió en la base de mi comprensión del color, porque todo tiene que ver con el tono, con la luz y la oscuridad. Si no lo entiendes, tu trabajo en color será un desastre. Así que ese es el principio de la caja de herramientas: dibujo y medios en blanco y negro.

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  Dark, Black And White, Understanding

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to be furious with them if they didn't read, because they just seemed so - their education seemed so thin if all they could do was pick up a paint-loaded brush and fling it at a canvas. I mean, there was nothing to express there, except maybe their own personal feelings. But if they're not - if they don't have a grounding in the way these things have been expressed by other people down through the centuries, then they're lost.

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  Escuela, Media, Niños

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• Even though I have this solid career in picture books, I've not only been thinking about kids - because I don't think that much about children; I'm not a child educator; I'm just a former child.

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  Niños, Libro, Kids

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the curriculum. There's no art; there's no music. In some cases they've taken away the libraries. They don't do theater. And these are the things that speak to the human soul.

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  Country, Art, Sorry

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I began drawing probably when I was - around the same time everybody else puts a mark on a piece of paper with a crayon - when I was two, probably. The difference between me and everybody else is, I kept doing it for the rest of my life; there was something very satisfying about that.

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  Crayón

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• There are just certain things you can't talk about with kids. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk. Kids are kids; they're innocents, they really are. For a long time, no matter what they see, no matter what they're exposed to, they can't get it until they have developed enough.

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  Believe, Character, Kids

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

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  Character, Funeral, Parent

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

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  Thinking, Kind

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