Ethan Canin Quotes
It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
Ethan Canin
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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.
Young Buck
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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.
Patrick J. Adams
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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.
Gavid Hood
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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.
Ted Deutch
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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.
Viktor E. Frankl
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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.
Ted Allen
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Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
Epictetus
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All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
Bryan Burrough
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As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
Umberto Eco
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The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional neccessity, and in all cases a temporary one.
John Stuart Mill
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
Ethan Canin
