Jeff Kinney Quotes
I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.
Quotes to Explore
-
My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
-
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
-
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
-
My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
-
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
-
Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
-
I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
-
Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
-
Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
-
I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
-
Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
-
I open the doors for everybody all the time.
-
Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
-
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
-
I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
-
I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
-
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
-
p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
-
I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
-
Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
-
I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
-
I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.
