Kay Cannon Quotes
Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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I can do whatever I want.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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90% trust peers on social networks (even strangers); only 15-18% trust brands.
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I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.
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When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.
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When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.
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To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything.
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Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down.
