Ethan Canin Quotes
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
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I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
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It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.
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When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor's office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don't think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping.
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Facebook is the social graph with the organizing principle around your friends and your social life. LinkedIn is the professional graph, organized around you, your job, your industry, your title and your function. At Chegg, we are building a student graph centered around you, as a student.
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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.
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My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.
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As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.
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Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'
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Jon Kyl did a really good job of presenting a case and moving issues. John McCain probably is one of the more effective legislators, getting things on through the process. I always thought, too - and this may seem kind of odd - Richard Shelby was just an effective guy a lot of times at stopping things.
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Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.
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Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
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I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people's lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.
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We should be optimistic about the future even though we have a complicated present.
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I always aimed at being a legend.
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Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
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It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
