Ethan Canin Quotes
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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.
Lance Morrow -
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.
Ira Glass -
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.
Carlene Carter -
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
Samantha Smith -
Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
Earl Monroe
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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.
Victoria Aveyard -
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.
D. A. Pennebaker -
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.
Quentin Tarantino -
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson -
How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
Zell Miller -
In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
Aldous Huxley
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder -
I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could. When I don't have challenges, the days get long. But I do enjoy being on stage. If I do good work, I get a kick out of that.
Don Ameche -
I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.
Matt Drudge -
4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.
Christopher Poole
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I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac -
There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
J. I. Packer -
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other proposition.
Anatol Rapoport -
And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
Fernando Pessoa -
The basic clay of our work is the youth; we place our hope in it and prepare it to take the banner from our hands.
Che Guevara -
Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.
Ethan Canin