Ethan Canin Quotes

Your first book is kind of a labor of ignorance. You don't realize the difficulty of it. Your second book is sort of a labor of fear. Then you sort of either hit a stride, or you don't.

Ethan Canin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FearIgnoranceBookYouLaborKind

I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.

Jeffrey Zeldman

MathematicsControlDesignCreate

It's interesting: the letters I get from mayors that want Wal-Mart to look and invest in their community.

Mike Duke

CommunityInterestingLookWantGet

I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.

Douglas Coupland

ThinkMoralSocialI ThinkRepugnant

I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.

Chico Hamilton

SimplePeopleMeMovingYouKnow

I've seen every episode of 'Seinfeld.'

Colleen Ballinger

SeenEveryEpisodeSeinfeld

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

Allen West

IntegrityGodTogetherHumility

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

William Shatner

WorkHard WorkThinkDoingHard

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Preity Zinta

PersonalityI AmGoReactEverything

At Pixar, of course, we have all these people, and they're just used to our process now where it's a discussion; it's a discovery. It's not individual artists going and fussing off by themselves in isolation and then handing their work in.

Pete Docter

WorkPeopleIsolationProcessNow

As a co-founder of the Defend Social Security Caucus in the Senate, you can count on me to continue to stand up for our seniors and fight any back door efforts to cut benefits.

Sheldon Whitehouse

FightMeDoorStand UpStandYou

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

Todd Gitlin

DayControlAmericanEvery DayEarth

You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

Rickey Medlocke

HomeSweetYouKnowHip-HopAlabama

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