Ethan Canin Quotes
You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
Ethan Canin
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
Octavia Spencer
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I trust bitcoin more than I trust my bank.
Adam Draper
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
Lasse Hallstrom
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There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
Jackie Cooper
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
E. M. Forster
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The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.
Kim Il-sung
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Living in a system under the Communist ideology, an artist cannot avoid fighting for freedom of expression. You always have to be aware that art is not only a self-expression but a demonstration of human rights and dignity. To express yourself freely, a right as personal as it is, has always been difficult, given the political situation.
Ai Weiwei
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That’s the words: 'So I’m back to the velvet underground'-which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff-'back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was.'
Stevie Nicks
Fleetwood Mac
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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
Donald Johanson
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Chicago is old stomping grounds for me.
Robert Dwayne Womack
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I'm still very much a kid inside myself.
Prince Harry
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He looked around, as if he was seeing the world for the first time. Beautiful was the world, colorful was the world, strange and mysterious was the world! Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were rigid, all of it was beautiful, all of it was mysterious and magical, and in its midst was he, Siddhartha, the awakening one, on the path to himself.
Hermann Hesse
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I feel like I'm good with girls. I understand them and am good at loving them. I've always felt like that's been natural for me.
Dylan O'Brien
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When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or shame that should be elicited in me.
Bill Hybels
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My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
Cormac McCarthy
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At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
Ethan Canin
