Joseph Kanon Quotes
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.
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I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.
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I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
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I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
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I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.
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If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
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We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.
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I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.
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Because it was one of my favorites from the Arthurian legend, one of the things that I really enjoyed doing was the legend of the crystal cave. In my head, it was fun to imagine what it was going to look like because there was a lot of CGI involved, in seeing visions of the future reflected within crystals.
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Reality itself become something random, inexplicable.
