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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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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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.
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There was no concept of fashion and catwalk shows where I came from.
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I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
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Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
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With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.
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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.
