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.Ethan Canin
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx -
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
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.
Barbara Corcoran -
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.
Rachel Sklar -
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.'
Pamela Meyer -
It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
Saint Ambrose
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Patrick White -
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
Narendra Modi -
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.
Vanity -
My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
Gavin Hood -
Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
Fiona Apple -
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop
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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.
Matt Lauer -
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
Khaleda Zia -
I love my work. It's been good to me.
Carl Kasell -
For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
Marie Rutkoski -
I gained weight, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and exercise and body image problems.
Lisa Lampanelli -
Although a food processor is not an absolutely essential piece of equipment, because you can certainly chop, grate, slice, knead and mix everything by hand, it does do all these things very quickly and efficiently and saves you time and energy.
Delia Smith
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That mountains that are now raised up in the imagination of many would become plain, and every difficulty surmounted.
Samuel Hopkins -
My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
Benicio Del Toro -
I'm sure both of us would like to come out with a win, but it's a long season. I just hope our kids come out focused.
Chris Norman Smokie -
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
Ryszard Kapuscinski -
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.
Ethan Canin