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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I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.
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And you can't really cover people critically that you're friends with.
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The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
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Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
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Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
