Jon Scieszka Quotes
When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
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I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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I think that you just understand, as any creative person, that there's a beast that you have to beat, and it never goes away. I've resigned myself to that, and it's kind of what keeps you going. Writing is the worst and the best.
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I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwasher for her.
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When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.
