Kay Cannon Quotes
On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.'
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.
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The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.
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I remember that the first time I looked at my son, of course I felt love. But I think the first feeling was not love: it was fear. Someone is needing me. If something happens to him, what am I going to do? Maybe I won't survive if something happens to him? The fear was as big as the love.
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You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.
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If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.
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On the set of 'Girlboss,' I had to keep introducing myself as the show runner - literally, 'Hi, I'm the boss' - to a lot of my crew. My first AD said, 'Why do you keep doing that?' I said, 'Because I get mistaken for an extra.'
