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.

Ethan Canin

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• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  

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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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• If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.

  

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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.

  

  Tayari Jones
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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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• My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.

  

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• I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.

  

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• No one ever got rich checking their email more often.

  

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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.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Fiction