Ethan Canin Quotes
The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.
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Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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A cruise missile is more important than Head Start.
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Over the course of 20 years that I've been at NBC, I have never seen the amount of money I make reported correctly by the media.
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The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!
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The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.
