Ethan Canin Quotes
I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
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Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resources, but in most places in the world today, women and girls are increasingly recognized as a critical link to greater prosperity, political stability, better health and public policy.
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There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
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Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.
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I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
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Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
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The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold.
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As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.
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When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.
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I couldn't sustain myself if I skimped on food - I work 16-hour days, I need the energy, I can't afford to be stingy on what I eat.
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For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.
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If we can sacrifice something comfortable, that we're 'too good at,' that might even be holding us back, we'll have more room to grow into the person we want to be.
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What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.
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Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.
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I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.
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We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.
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I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.
