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.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Control
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Work
  • Learn

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • God
  • Faith
  • Know

• I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Visualize

• 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.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • Free
  • Economy
  • Manufacturing

• I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Awesome

• A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Goal
  • Cap

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • People
  • Never
  • Constitution

• Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Family
  • Farm
  • Crop

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Infinite
  • Out

• 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.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Change
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

  

  Boris Kodjoe

• INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Love
  • Religious

• People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

  

  Bob Woodward
  • People
  • Silly

• 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.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • People
  • Good