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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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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Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
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When I was younger, I always wanted to impress, to be good for my country, to make them feel good, and sometimes that meant I didn't focus on myself enough. I learned I had to put myself first. And it's fine because I want for me the same thing that they want for me, which is to win.
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To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.
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Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
