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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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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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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Despite what Pope Benedict would have us believe, sex without love can be fucking amazing.
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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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The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.
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One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.
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You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope.
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Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
