Ethan Canin Quotes
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
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'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
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'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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I have never ever argued about billings because I don’t think that they mean anything.
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Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?
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Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
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I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.
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It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
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To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.
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We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
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The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.
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I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script.
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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
