Ethan Canin Quotes

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

Ethan Canin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorldWayNeverFaultsDivideTend

Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him.

John McAfee

LoveFearCompassionJealousyBaby

Although a crisp texture is the single most prized quality in an apple - even more desirable than taste, according to one study - crispness is more a matter of acoustics than of mouth feel.

John Seabrook

QualityFeelMouthAppleMatter

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

Steven Weber

PatienceMoveExtremismAboutUntil

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

Sidney Altman

LifeWorldEarthStageOrigin

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

Michael Stipe

WaterBeachOceanSwimmingMiami

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.

Joyce Carol Oates

WorkTimePastDoingEraseBecause

I have been dyeing my hair since I was, like, 2.

JoJo Siwa

HairBeenLikeSince

We live in a big world. We are citizens of the world, and we make movies for everybody around the world. I think it's very important to understand what people's life experiences, good and bad, are.

Donna Langley

LifeGoodLivePeopleWorldThink

It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

Corey Haim

LoveDownWordGuessAbout

When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.

Wilson Cruz

LifeEducationSuccessTimeThink

The reality is that every movie is a new business. Nobody says, 'Hey, let's go down to the Pantages Theater, I hear a Warner Brothers picture is playing there.' Or, 'Let's go to this theater, I hear the film came in on budget.' It'd be ridiculous.

Peter Guber

BusinessRealityPictureBudgetDown

I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

Nikki Sixx

PeopleJumpWantThroughHoops

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