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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You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Someone once quoted Shakespeare to the philosopher W. V. O. Quine: There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. To which Quine is said to have responded: Possibly, but my concern is that there not be more things in my philosophy than are in heaven and earth.
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My brushwork is quite unsystematic. I slam the paint on in all sorts of ways and leave each result to take care of itself.
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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
