Ethan Canin Quotes
Doubt is the enemy of mania. It's trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like writing is three sentences in, when somehow those weights drop away, and you can invent. I cannot tell you the dread I have.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.
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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
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There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
Gail Devers
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.
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The proliferation of mobile broadband networks combined with local area hot spots is bringing the dream of seamless and ubiquitous connectivity closer to reality.
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Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us.
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Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
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I think... all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can't really build back doors in crypto. That it's like drilling a hole in the windshield.
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I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!
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Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
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Preposterous to say that to punish a certain act was not an abridgement of the liberty of doing that act.
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Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.
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My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
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Doubt is the enemy of mania. It's trying to get aloft strung with weights. The moment I like writing is three sentences in, when somehow those weights drop away, and you can invent. I cannot tell you the dread I have.
