Jeff Kinney Quotes
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I don't think everything has to be new all the time. You don't have to have the latest designer all the time to look good. Just have things you're comfortable with, have key pieces that you can sort of reinvent over and over again, and always keep things that you really love for a while.
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There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be oblique on 'Game of Thrones.'
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As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.
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The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture.
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The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
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I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.
