Jon Scieszka Quotes
People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'
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My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.
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A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.
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You step in a divot or a hole you're not expecting to be there, and it can throw off your timing or your approach.
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A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.
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I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like...
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People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'
