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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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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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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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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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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It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.
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'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
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I'm in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn't get offered before - fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I'm glad because it opens up new territory.
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We don't want John Wick to retire again; we're glad he's back in the game. We want a sequel or a prequel. There's a lot of fertile ground to cover.
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A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
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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.
