Joseph Kanon Quotes

When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

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• I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Crazy
  • Shoes
  • Napoleon

• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Have Fun

• My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Job
  • Ideas
  • Fair

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Universe

• I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Yoga

• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Me
  • Fool
  • Shame

• There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Community

• I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Stress
  • Prejudice

• My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Dad
  • Vote
  • Mentor

• You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Start
  • Risks

• Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Life
  • Music
  • Experience

• Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • American
  • House

• I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Inspiration
  • Conversation
  • Conflict

• Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Grateful
  • Musicians

• Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

  

  J. Cole
  • Words
  • Cool
  • Sometimes

• One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Child
  • Facts
  • Forgotten

• Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Long
  • Live
  • Soul

• I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Work
  • Perfect

• When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.

  

  Joseph Kanon
  • Perfect
  • Writer
  • Editing