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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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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My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
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The whole thing with contouring is to contour where your natural cheekbone would be and where sun would hit you naturally.
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I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.
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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.
