Joseph Kanon Quotes
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
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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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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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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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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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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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Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.
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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.
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As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
