Ethan Canin Quotes
I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.Ethan Canin
Quotes to Explore
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Tacitus -
When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
Yoko Ono -
I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
Rafael Palmeiro -
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
Victor Hugo -
I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
Sam Shepard
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
Natalia Makarova -
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West -
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
Eddie Redmayne -
We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
W. H. Davies -
When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
E. Y. Harburg -
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
Walter Gropius
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
Tamae Watanabe -
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
Damian Lewis -
Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
Ian Goldin -
So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra Modi -
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
Vin Diesel -
When anything goes, it's women who lose.
Camille Paglia
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Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
T-Pain -
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
Daniel Baldwin -
Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
I think when you're writing from your own life, it's hard because you realize that people have their own assessment of how they look, and they don't know how you will describe them.
Carrie Brownstein -
Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.
Phil Gramm -
I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
Ethan Canin