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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • People
  • Cool

• We are a complex species to observe.

  

  Jasmine Guy

• Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • Up
  • May

• The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Driving

• Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People

• I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Comedy
  • Kid
  • Occurred

• It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.

  

  Klaus Kinski
  • Book
  • True
  • Strong

• Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

  

  Seth Berkley
  • Responsibility
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• As leader of the Fine Gael Party, I will also use our position in the European People's Party to clearly state our views with our European political partners.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • People
  • Political
  • Party

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

  

  Ethan Canin
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