Jeff Kinney Quotes

Many of Judy Blume's books - which I devoured when I was growing up and where I found characters that were believable because they were a lot like me - caused considerable consternation when they were first published, but now they're widely accepted as an essential part of the children's literary canon.

Jeff Kinney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'

Joe R. Lansdale

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Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

John Berger

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I don't think I'm fearless at all. I think anybody who says they're fearless doesn't last very long. I think I'm pretty cautious, actually.

Anderson Cooper

FearlessThinkLongPrettyLastWho

Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances.

Andy Weir

PeopleResearchSocietyNewWill

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

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Growing up, I loved magic, I loved acting, I loved comedy. I really didn't know what direction I was going. I was trying a whole bunch of stuff.

Michael Carbonaro

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In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

John Sulston

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'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in this way, to bring it to spectacular life.

Stephen Kinzer

LifeTechnologyHistoryStoryNew

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

Rob Reiner

LifeLovePeopleViolenceEarly

I like to do really good things. But 'good' - witness Charles Dickens - doesn't mean 'not popular.'

Roger Rees

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I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.

Mira Nair

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While it's true that Washington would benefit from more civility, the Senate, behind the scenes, is an extraordinarily collegial institution.

Jon Kyl

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