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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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.
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After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.
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I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.
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It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study them with a mix of sadness and curiosity: Is this what we will be like when we are their age? We tell ourselves to be patient - just answer the same question again as if it wasn't answered a moment ago.
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I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.
