Jeff Kinney Quotes
If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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I do not like violence.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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I want to be a pretty corpse.
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What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?
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I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.
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Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.
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When I dress up in costume, it always starts with the wig for me. Big wigs and big headpieces are so fun, and they give you confidence and make you feel powerful.
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If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.
