Ethan Canin Quotes

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

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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.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• 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.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Win
  • President
  • Member

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• 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.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • World
  • Like
  • More

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Best
  • Mistake
  • Teacher

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Questions

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• Happiness needs one-upmanship.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Happiness
  • Needs

• 'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bible

• I have never ever argued about billings because I don’t think that they mean anything.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• 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?

  

  Auberon Herbert
  • Up
  • Power
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Hero
  • Intelligent

• It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Smile
  • Ignorance

• 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.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Success

• We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mistake

• Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

  

  Pedro Martinez

• I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Family
  • Brother

• Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • People
  • Why
  • Band

• We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Time
  • School
  • Driving

• How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors...

  

  Daniel O'Connell
  • Men

• I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.

  

  Erin Cahill
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Because

• Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

  

  Adrian Grenier
  • Fun

• There are some communities that feel you shouldn't give them the publicity, because it's just going to make people curious. There are communities who feel we need to fight them tooth and nail. What we have seen, though, is that ignoring them does not make them go away. If we sit back and let them have free reign, we lose members of our community.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • Free
  • Giving

• I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Power
  • Fascinated
  • Ruthless