Ethan Canin Quotes
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.
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I have a love of baseball and a love of music.
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At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke
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Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.
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We must create the conditions for immigrants to normally integrate into our society, learn Russian and, of course, respect our culture and traditions and abide by Russian law. In this regard, I believe that the decision to make learning the Russian language compulsory and administer exams is well grounded. To do so, we will need to carry out major organisational work and introduce corresponding legislative amendments.
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
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The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
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I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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Faith lives in honest doubt.
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I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off, I never want to seal it. I just want to keep adding walls and keep on going as high as it can go, but I'm never gonna be boxed in, can't. That's when you lose because when you box yourself in, you know you get comfortable, you start getting complacent. I can't be like that.
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Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?
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A book, an article, could make noise, but ancient warriors before the battle also made noise, and if it wasn’t accompanied by real force and immeasurable violence it was only theater.
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When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.
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I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.
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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
