Jory John quotes
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“Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.”
-- Jory JohnSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“Mac [Barnett ] and I have been friends for more than ten years. We met working at an educational nonprofit. And we have been pranking each other the whole time. It's our own version of a prank war. We thought we would channel some of that energy into writing a book.”
-- Jory JohnSource : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school.”
-- Jory JohnSource : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.”
-- Jory JohnSource : Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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“Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three hundred kids at every assembly. And it feels really good. It's really fun.”
-- Jory JohnSource : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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Source : Carl F. H. Henry (2003). “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism”, p.16, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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“Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.”
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“In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.”
Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.82, Kensington Publishing Corp.
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