Ethan Canin Quotes
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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Writers are so important.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
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He took me under his wing when I first came to the Rams and taught me everything – his technique in the pass rush, how to play off blockers, and how to make the big play.
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Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity.
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Although it is tempting to describe the conduct of Tinder's senior executives as 'frat-like,' it was, in fact, much worse - representing the worst of the misogynist, alpha-male stereotype too often associated with technology startups.
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Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.
