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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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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You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
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The worst thing that happens to you at college if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you will miss two hours of someone reading scintillating anecdotes about Medieval Ireland. The worst thing that happens to you in life if you fail to get out of bed in time is that you might lose your job as a first responder.
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A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
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I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.
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But every class struggle is a political struggle.
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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.
