Jeff Kinney Quotes
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I've always lived by this philosophy, when it comes to conspiracies, never to attribute to deviousness that which can be explained by incompetence.
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
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I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.
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Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.
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I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
