Jeff Kinney Quotes
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.
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I like food way too much to not eat.
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I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.
