Ethan Canin Quotes
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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You don't necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it - that's the truest form of drama.
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I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.
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Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."
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You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
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We go through the whole season working on next season's car and developing the car and making sure we fit in the car and all that sort of stuff. And we obviously give ideas of what we would hope next year's car would have even if it's small things like buttons on the steering wheel and different positions and whatever.
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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
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Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
