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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A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.
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For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.
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There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.
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It was like she understood something about me that she'd never quite understood before. I always felt that when she looked at me, she was trying to find me, trying to find out who I was. But it seemed at that moment that she saw me, that she knew me. But that confused me.
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I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
