Ethan Canin Quotes

I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.

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• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• 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
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

• 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
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Done

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Born
  • Being
  • Privilege

• The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• I want to be free... free to develop my art.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Hate

• I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Cook
  • How

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• 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
  • Long
  • Business
  • Fashion

• When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Love
  • Girl
  • I Love

• Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Power
  • Politics

• While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• 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
  • Think
  • Me
  • Hard

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• We weren't going to take any chances with him.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Chances

• Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

  

  Nick Rahall
  • Unique
  • Wilderness
  • Activities

• The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Success

• I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.

  

  Ethan Canin
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