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 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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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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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
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When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.
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Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, oftentimes, bluffing.
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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
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Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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I was called the girl that was 'pretty for a big girl,' 'the fat model.'
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We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
