Jon Scieszka Quotes
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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I'm influenced by all types of music.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.
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The moderns were interested in what was likely to come of such changes and their general tendency: they thought about the thing itself, substantively, in utopian or essential fashion.
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When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.
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A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.
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The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.
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For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.
