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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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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It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.
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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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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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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.
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There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
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When I get a beautifully written piece of material, I immediately start imagining how I would interpret it. I love just daydreaming about it for months, breaking it down, seeing where I can spin something. How I can turn this into the most fun ride for the audience that I can make it? That's my job.
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My job is to make sure that as our customers' priorities change, as the environment changes, we shift that portfolio of products to meet them.
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As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?
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My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.
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I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.
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Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
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I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.
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I've got guys in my band that have been there for about 35 years. They're great players, and we still enjoy doing the music.
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It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
