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 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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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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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 didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
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My hair looks so good out in the desert, it's unbelievable. It's, like, perfectly not frizzy.
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I started in the kitchen of a Holiday Inn in Birmingham. I wanted to be a sponge, wanted to learn and progress. I knew I didn't want to work in a hotel forever, but I had some good teachers there.
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Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
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I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.
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The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.
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We've always had a love for other places outside the US. I would be right with him. Now that Michael's been vindicated, we all have to be careful... you never know what someone's plotting and planning.
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The system of scholastic disputations encouraged in the Universities of the middle ages had unfortunately trained men to habits of indefinite argumentation, and they often preferred absurd and extravagant propositions, because greater skill was required to maintain them; the end and object of such intellectual combats being victory and not truth.
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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.
