Jon Scieszka Quotes

Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

Jon Scieszka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1954

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Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.

John Coltrane

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I never thought I would be divorced.

Andrew Cuomo

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But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.

Andy Richter

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If I make a change to a young kid to play any sport, not only tennis, instead of spending time in front of the TV or computer, that is good. I want to give them a good example: 'Hey, go out and play and see the world.'

Ana Ivanovic

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There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.

Ron Chernow

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I don't choose characters with the intention of working something out in my personal life.

Michael Pitt

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I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue.

Joni Mitchell

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Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love.

Demi Moore

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When I met my wife Vicky's family, I had to go out of my way to convince them, to show them, that I wasn't anything like their idea of a musician.

Chris Cornell

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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Antony Beevor

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It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

Susie Bright

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I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Pope Francis

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