Ethan Canin Quotes
I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.
Ethan Canin
Quotes to Explore
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
Taya Kyle
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
Barry Jenkins
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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.
Olivia Thirlby
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All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.
Margaret Mitchell
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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The poor get worked, the rich get richer,
Jean-Jacques Cadet
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Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase in real incomes, stagnant median wages and so on, that on the other hand global inequality is going down because people who are much poorer than them are getting richer - it's something that maybe they would like in an abstract sense, because everyone is happy there are fewer poor Chinese, but you may not be as happy if these Chinese are taking your job.
Branko Milanovic
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It was not that socialism failed , it was the lack of socialism.
Wojciech Jaruzelski
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I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.
Ethan Canin