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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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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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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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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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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I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.
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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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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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People not only want to support public schools, but people warm to this idea of being a philanthropist, even if they might have only have $5 to spare.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.
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If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
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I am a strong woman. I come from a background as a prosecutor.
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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.
