Jeff Kinney Quotes

When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.

Jeff Kinney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

Jimmy Buffett

ExpectingAlbum

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

Joe Mantegna

MeBelieveCensorshipMean

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.

Jim Crace

LifeAdventureMy LifeAdmitWant

If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was.

John Galliano

SchoolParentsBelieveWayRight

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

Robert Kagan

UnderstandMarsLittleAgreeVenus

We didn't have to use technology to build a surveillance state.

Trevor Paglen

TechnologyBuildSurveillanceState

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

Tommy Douglas

BirdWalkOceanManFlyFish

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

Tom T. Hall

CarSongYouArtistCountryNow

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

Martin Shkreli

MoneyStartCompanyAlwaysPublic

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

NatureLoveMusicSeaManSociety

That straight man character is a short trip between comedy and drama in a project, so I can play the comedic beat on the same page as a dramatic beat. It gives me a lot of freedom as an actor to play scenes in multiple ways because I don't play the clown, nor do I play someone who is particularly maudlin.

Jason Bateman

CharacterFreedomManMeShortPlay

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Jonathan Ames

YouPlaceKnowTeethMeanFirst

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