Joseph Kanon Quotes
Life is like that, don’t you think? Mostly bad choices. All you can do is keep your balance between them.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
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You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
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I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
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I'm glad you can't talk on your cells while the plane is in the air. That would drive me crazy.
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It's a blessing to be a part of such great shows that they're so recognizable.
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I've done some awful auditions, and I've really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that's what makes you a better actor, just doing bad work and seeing what looks bad and growing from it.
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Life is like that, don’t you think? Mostly bad choices. All you can do is keep your balance between them.
