Jeff Kinney Quotes

I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.

Jeff Kinney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Nobody wants to hear me rap.

Joe Mauer

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We don't like it when the president doesn't even say 'Islamic terror.' It's very disturbing.

Jesse Watters

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I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.

Andrew Stanton

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Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'

Matt Smith

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A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

Rory Bremner

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I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.

Maryanne Wolf

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Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

Mary Manin Morrissey

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The way that I live is in between the dual experiences of the tragedy mask and the comedy mask. I feel that I write best and think best in between those two masks.

Mike O'Malley

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I over-write!

Michaela Coel

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I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

Michael Rooker

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People have seen me fighting everything from 'Fast and Furious' to the IRS on Planned Parenthood to a host of things, Benghazi and others.

Jason Chaffetz

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I have no message or answers to social questions.

Dennis Farina

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