Joe Carnahan Quotes
Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I always played to win.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine - from anywhere in the world.
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But he didn’t know exactly where the worry was coming from. He just had a feeling. Like thunder in the sky. Only the thunder was in his stomach. There would be a storm.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.
