Ethan Canin Quotes

A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.

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• There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Like
  • Radical
  • Critic

• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Question
  • Look
  • Make A Difference

• People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Looking

• I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Now And Then

• 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

• Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Self
  • Just
  • Some

• If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • May
  • Practice
  • Research

• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Late
  • Begin
  • Too Late

• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Cooperation

• I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Time
  • Girl
  • Hair

• I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Going
  • Head
  • Coach

• According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friend

• I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Yoga
  • Healthy
  • Run

• I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Game

• In England, footballers are respected more, the game is more noble, there's less cheating. Every Spaniard who goes loves it - and comes back a better player. If I had ever left, it would have been to England.

  

  Xavi
  • Game
  • Player
  • Better

• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Man

• You have to be resilient.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • You
  • Resilient

• Naturally we always want to get ourselves forward as musicians and also as a band and of course we want to sell more all the time. We won’t deny it, of course we do.

  

  Jukka Nevalainen Nightwish
  • Band
  • Musicians
  • Forward

• Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Government
  • Accountability

• If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Know
  • Story

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

  

  Ben Goertzel
  • Music
  • Language
  • Emotions

• A ten- or twelve-page story seems too easy, which is a funny thing to say considering that writing a decent short story is devastatingly difficult. Yet it still seems easier than a novel. You can turn a short story on a single good line - ten pages of decent writing and one good moment.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Story
  • Considering
  • Good Moments