Ethan Canin Quotes
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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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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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The only theology worth doing is that which inspires and transforms lives, that which empowers us to participate in creating, liberating, and blessing the world.
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It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and fans around the world are recognizing that.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
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Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
