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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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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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 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 haven't lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it's very beautiful. But I'm a working parent, so I've always kept my own life.
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As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.
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If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.
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We owe our law enforcement officers the highest respect.
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Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.
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I feel like because I've done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It's more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.
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I'm kind of stupid.
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
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It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.
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I had no idea In-N-Out was going to fall on my lap as soon as it did.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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Reality itself become something random, inexplicable.
