Jon Scieszka Quotes
We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.

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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Oh, I love Nottingham. I know some people go, 'Oh God, there's not much going off there,' but I like staying in and going round to my mum and dad's for a Sunday roast.
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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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Most films made about the future acquiesce toward death, and I don't want to be told how to define my future.
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And the heavy night hung dark,The hills and waters o'er,When a band of exiles moored their barkOn the wild New England shore.
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Music a pederast might hum when raping a choirboy.
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Spot the falsehood of history and find out the truth.
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Mrs. Oliver in her own opinion was famous for her intuition. One intuition succeeded another with remarkable rapidity, and Mrs. Oliver always claimed the right to justify the particular intuition which turned out to be right!
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The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.
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The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.
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Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.
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Pulsars are in an ideal part of the universe to test Einstein's theory of relativity - so far, it's holding up well. They may even one day act as navigational beacons for spacecraft. I'll never tire of them; they really are the most extraordinary objects.
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I love it when people want to interpret my books.
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We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.