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Ethan Canin Quotes

I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstance.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 19, 1960

Topics

Success Character Think Confident

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Way Old Adult Found Old Photographs

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

Positive Business Challenge Small

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Progress Song Better You First Get

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Jealousy Amazing Clarity Psychotic

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Science Imagination People Mind Play

Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.

Mother Woman Child Conflict Partner

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

Love Loneliness Hate Compassion Me

Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we're doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.

Doing Down Price Point Bring Driver

I do quite a bit of traveling. But sometimes I just want to stay at home!

Home Sometimes Want Stay Just Quite

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

You Never Worthless Take Function

I worked for George Bush. I'm proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did, that people didn't like and - and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives.

People Proud Think Him Surveillance

I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.

Business People Story Know Structure

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