Ethan Canin Quotes
I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now in Boston. And I lived in Iowa for a couple of years, where I studied at the Writers Workshop.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
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I said 'no' to the 'Born Survivor' producer three times because I've never aspired to be a TV man.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
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I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.
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Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
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When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.
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Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
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I was born in Ann Arbor. I lived for a while in Ohio; Pennsylvania, California for 10 years, and now in Boston. And I lived in Iowa for a couple of years, where I studied at the Writers Workshop.
