Jon Scieszka Quotes

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

Jon Scieszka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I did a terrible job of composing myself. I was a spoiled brat from Long Island who benefitted from the energy of New York.

John McEnroe

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Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.

Matt Mullenweg

FocusBetterEnvironmentMoodRole

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

Stephen Sondheim

WorkPeopleThinkFeelSomething

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

Steven Pinker

SunMoonLanguageTalkSolarSystem

The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

FakeWell DoneNewsDoneSayNever

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

Ruben Blades

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It was tough mentally at Chelsea, obviously not getting the game time. I had to be really patient and have the mentality to still train right and do all the right things.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

TimeGameToughTrainRightPatient

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

Michael Tippett

MusicOutsideInterestMade

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Minna Antrim

GoodWomanManWeirdBadShe

When I started not training as hard and doing what I needed to do, everyone else improved without me improving.

Mirai Nagasu

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I pay attention to the sun. I've worn sunglasses while I play, for years, and apply sunscreen. No matter where I'm playing, there's a rain suit in my bag, too.

Louis Oosthuizen

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'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.

Jonathan Tropper

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