Ethan Canin Quotes
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.Ethan Canin
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason -
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
D. L. Hughley -
The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
Warren Spector -
After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
Venus Williams -
I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
Naguib Mahfouz
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
Hanna Rosin -
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
Ralph Kiner -
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Quentin Crisp -
I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people you thought were one way and in fact are another. They can allow us to examine ourselves.
Taylor Sheridan -
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
Jack Prelutsky -
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
Harold Pinter
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
Dan Savage -
I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
Dana Carvey -
'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
Edmund Phelps -
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee -
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
Malcolm Mclaren
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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
Jack Kemp -
O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.
e. e. cummings -
What's the point of having shimmery feet?
Chantelle Houghton -
I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.
Ethel Smyth -
Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.
Diane Ackerman -
There has always been a tension in my life between the romantic and the practical. I can't hole myself up in a cabin and write down ideas for the rest of my life. I also need to be able to clean out a dog bite.
Ethan Canin