Ethan Canin Quotes
I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
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I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
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I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make
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If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.
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The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.
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I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
