Joseph Kanon Quotes
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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.
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Think and grow rich.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.
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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.'
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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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.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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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.
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.
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We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.
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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
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When punk came along, it made perfect sense to me. I found it melodic. The Clash, Buzzcocks.
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When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.
