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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In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.
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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
