Ethan Canin Quotes
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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There are no tough guys in wrestling.
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I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.
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When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.
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Scarborough never really began to live until the summer of 1964 when the Beatles played the Futurist Theatre, and no one in the audience, least of all me, heard anything but the screaming.
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Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
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If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.
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I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play.
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There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
