Jeff Kinney Quotes
The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
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All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
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How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
