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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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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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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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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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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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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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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Football is a game. So you need to enjoy your football.
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
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There's a beauty to math. Math is so simple. It's just one step after the next.
