Ethan Canin Quotes
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I want to challenge the best, and I'm ready.
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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
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I like to play with tropes.
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
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One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.
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Hopefully, this will serve as a wake-up call.
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The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.
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I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.
