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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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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It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.
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I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
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It's about working when nobody's watching.
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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.
