Ethan Canin Quotes

It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.

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• It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Important
  • Motivational
  • Decisions

• When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Poems

• I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Dark
  • Find
  • Green

• I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Thought
  • Weird
  • Doing

• The good romances are as good as anything.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Good
  • Anything
  • Romances

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

  Young Buck
  • Back
  • Streets
  • Started

• My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Experience
  • Father
  • Game

• My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Community
  • Passion
  • Politics

• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Great
  • Job
  • Me

• I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Career
  • Beginning

• I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

  

  Jackson Browne

• Wherever there is greater joy, there is the direction of everyone’s activity, because the innermost of everyone is really the lighted lamp of Total Knowledge, total organising power of knowledge, it’s all bliss, it’s not necessary for the people to suffer.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

  

  Lady Gaga

• If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart; we can look after each other better than we do today.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Today

• For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Small

• I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
  • Done
  • Home

• Whatever people want to call me, I'm cool with, except 'Zinger.'

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • People
  • Cool

• People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I can't do it, I can't conceive You're everything you're trying to make me believe 'Cause this show is too well designed Too well to be held with only me in mind And how, how am I different? How, how am I different?

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Mind

• The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Faith
  • Spring
  • Errors

• The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.

  

  Eugene Rivers
  • Competition
  • Serving
  • Great Thing

• It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.

  

  Ethan Canin
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