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Stephen J. Cannell Quotes

I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.

Stephen J. Cannell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 5, 1941 - September 30, 2010

Topics

Life Work Goals Believe You Achieve

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

Joey McIntyre

You Rules Go Go For It See Just

Film is forever.

Angela Bassett

Forever Film

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.

John Sebastian

Girl Moment Kiss Sister You Her

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Stephen King

Heart People Small Think Person Boy

There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.

Tori Amos

World Language You Look Jazz More

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

Tom Robbins

Shoes Walk Yourself Sun Clouds You

I think most people have a general sense that when you're released from prison, life is hard, but, you know, if you work hard and apply self-discipline and stay out of trouble, you can make it. But that's true only for a relative few.

Michelle Alexander

Life Work People Work Hard Think

The reason Jeb Bush is not doing well is because of his name. He is part of a long establishment Republican family, and this is not going well with the Republican Party.

Lois Frankel

Family Name Doing Long Party Reason

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Friendship Peace Understanding Belief

Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.

Joseph Brodsky

Life Appearance Know Matter Task

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

Chris Hardwick

Someone You Say Pitching Niche Show

The unfolding migratory crisis has become one of the most acute challenges facing the international community. Millions of lives are at stake. All of us have a responsibility to act. Collectively, we need to find solutions.

Arancha Gonzalez

Community Responsibility Challenges