Jeff Kinney Quotes
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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You never get every job you want.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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My record speaks for itself.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.
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I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.
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I don't think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. Generally speaking, we don't have vivid memories of that age and what influenced us, yet clearly they are hugely formative years and it's really important that we can create television of a high quality for that audience.
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I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.
