Ethan Canin Quotes
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I have worked really hard on my game, but I think my mother has been a real pillar of strength. She has prayed a lot, sacrificed a lot for me. You know, she hasn't seen me bat so far. When I am batting, she is praying... mothers are like that, aren't they?
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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I'm still going to have to go out and score, but defensively hopefully I can make them a little bit better.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.
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I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.
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I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.
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What's more interesting than the arc of lives?
