Joseph Kanon Quotes
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have proper places to run.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.
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From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
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There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
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Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.
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I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
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As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
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We became the songs we wrote.
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Yeah, it's pretty clear, I ain't no size two But I can shake it, shake it Like I'm supposed to do 'Cause I got that boom boom that all the boys chase And all the right junk in all the right places
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After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
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Just as is happening in many other places in the world now, as there has been a rash of decisions in other countries, either legislative or judicial, validating same-gender marriages, I think that the time will come in Hawaii.
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….I have no patience with women who complain because their mothers or their husband’s mothers have to live with them. To my prejudice eye, a child’s life without a grandparent en residence would be a barren thing.
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If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
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I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
