Ethan Canin Quotes
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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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.
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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.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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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.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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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.
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My passion for strengthening the community and making peoples' lives better is stronger now than when I first got into politics.
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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.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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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.
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I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
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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.
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I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.
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You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
