Kay Cannon Quotes
It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it.
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You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.
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Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
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I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.
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It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.
