Ethan Canin Quotes
If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
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'Cooking Lucky' is a show for guys - or girls - or really for anyone who is all thumbs in the kitchen and needs some help cooking meals that are so incredibly impressive they make it look like you've been slaving in the kitchen all day when in reality, they are so effortless to put together that even a moron can do it.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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Because the Republicans are never going to turn on Trump so long as he still has his base, and he will continue to have his base so long as this idea that he is standing up for workers, it remains intact. And the only way that that gets eroded is if it isn't just about Russia all the time, but is also about those economic betrayals.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given.
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
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No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
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I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.
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If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.
