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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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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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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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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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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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of 'To the Bone' but to simply getting a film about people with eating disorders made. Without the brilliant Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, and Karina Miller producing, there's no way this project would be coming to fruition.
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I figured out how to put basically the functionality of an M.R.I. machine - a multimillion-dollar M.R.I. machine - into a wearable in the form of a ski hat.
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My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.
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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.
