Ethan Canin Quotes

I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

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• Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Group

• Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • World
  • America
  • Elements

• There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • She
  • You
  • Feeling

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• 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?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Different
  • Understood

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.

  

  Halsey
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Cold

• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Giving

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Crisis
  • Humanitarian
  • Syrian

• We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Being

• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • God
  • Book

• Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Education
  • Become
  • Activity

• I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Know
  • Means
  • Normal

• Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

  

  Stephen F. Lynch
  • Trade
  • Fair
  • Free Trade

• My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Identity
  • Write
  • Around

• It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Fingers
  • Piece
  • Cultivate

• I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Write
  • Sentence
  • I Don't Know