Ethan Canin Quotes
To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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Good-quality nuts, toasted in a little butter and salt, make a magical addition to many salads.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.
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You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.
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'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
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I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.
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I've never met Ai Weiwei but he's a colleague, an artist. In a very simple way he is heroically recording human existence. All he's done is to record death by administration, death by corruption, inefficiency. I don't even think he's pointing that sharp a finger, frankly.
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.
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I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.
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Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.
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Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.
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To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.
