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Jeff Kinney Quotes

If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fun. As an adult reader, when I see an obvious moral lesson to be taught, I run in the other direction... Kids can sniff out an adult agenda from an early age. I'm writing for entertainment, not to impress literary judges.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1971

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Age Fun Writing Reading Direction

With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.

Interesting You Information Pretty

I believe the earth's climate is changing, but I think it's changing for natural variation reasons and I think mankind has been adapting to climate as long as man has walked the earth.

Man Believe Think Long Earth Been

TV shows and movies are a rare form of atemporality, and in an ever-changing, always-on world, spoilers feel irrefutable - sheer access to them gives the illusion of control.

Control World Feel Illusion Movies

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

Life My Life Never Computer Touched

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

Andrea Riseborough

Home You Body Go Kind Circumstances

I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

Eye Know Fame Said Whatever Prize

I support the work of the NRA. I'm a member of the NRA.

Work Support Member NRA

I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Me Building Body Glass Will See

I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

Myself Fun Looking Have Fun Focused

Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.

Technology Past Create Student New

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Happiness Ignorance Peace Man You

You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.

World Gift Loss You Lose Seeing

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