Jon Scieszka Quotes
For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I want to have a long career.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
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I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
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When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.
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For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.
