David Small
David Small
David Smallis an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 February 1945
CountryUnited States of America
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I think, in fairness to everyone, that the proposal has changed pretty substantially from a technological viewpoint. Now the question be- comes: Is it enough?
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I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational.
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I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.
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The mere presence of the displaced population will create jobs,
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The US Central Command Air Forces is sending 300 Active Duty and Air Force Reserve Airmen home who were assigned to Keesler Air Force Base (in Biloxi, Mississippi) so they can attend to their families' needs after Hurricane Katrina,
active air airmen assigned attend base central command duty forces home hurricane needs reserve sending
The U.S. Central Command Air Forces is sending 300 Active Duty and Air Force Reserve Airmen home who were assigned to Keesler Air Force Base (in Biloxi, Mississippi) so they can attend to their families' needs after Hurricane Katrina,
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We feel this is where the growth is, in Lancaster County. With the surrounding cities the area is pretty saturated.
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Due to circumstances with design and cost, we have been forced to look at an alternative scheme. Certainly in the next few months we'll have our arms around the direction in which we want to go.
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Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.
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I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.
My kids' books all have a darkness to them.
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Nearly 100 airmen who were scheduled to deploy from Keesler AFB (to the Central Command area of responsibility) will not deploy now
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The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.
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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.