Ethan Canin Quotes
I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
Ethan Canin
Quotes to Explore
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It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.
Halima Aden
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco
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Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.
Nate Parker
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TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important ideas of our time. Our focus is on women as change agents, innovators and idea champions, and I think people will be both inspired and surprised by the program. We're exploring some fascinating territory!
Pat Mitchell
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I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.
Yuvraj Singh
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Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else. Even when there is no one.
Margaret Atwood
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The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.
Ernest Hemingway
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As a writer, you have to put yourself in service to the character, get behind their eyes by delineating the world where the character develops. You have to listen to the character and see him inside his certain world to know what conclusions he would draw.
Alice McDermott
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato
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My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
J. D. Souther
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The writers are the backbone in television, like in film, but eventually, as an actress, I can bring something.
Priyanka Chopra
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I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.
Ethan Canin
