Ethan Canin Quotes
I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
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I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.
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Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.
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It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
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Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.
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Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
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In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to spend money. It's a lot easier rationalizing spending a lot for a house.
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There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.
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I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change?
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Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.
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In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's less artifice involved.
