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Ethan Canin Quotes

You don't idea your way into a plot but plot your way into an idea.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You Way Idea Your Plot

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers.

Life Love True Love Plan Acting

I knew that in order to make a more lasting impact, to be on a show that people would watch on a regular basis, I would have to change my thinking.

Change People Thinking Impact More

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

Power Beautiful Diversity You Muscle

Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

Moment Better Moments Go Movies She

The free market is not a god; we have to do everything we can to make the market competitive.

God Free Everything Competitive Make

If I've written five pages by hand, out of those five pages, one page might be worth saving. The rest is crap. I have to throw it away. It's like I need eight hours to do two hours' work.

Work Rest Worth Page Hand Need

I remember a very nurturing, safe environment: everybody knew who I was, who my parents were, who my grandparents were, what part of Russia we were from originally. That was a really comforting feeling. Non-Mennonites, when they see that aspect of it, think it's a beautiful thing, and it is, but there's so much going on besides.

Beautiful Parents Think Remember See

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

Life Live Remember You Person Kind

Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.

Three Way Bigger Us Along Than

I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a musician, around the same time. The good news is, I was probably 17 when I knew that's what I was going to do with the rest of my life, no matter what that meant.

Life Good Music Age Time Rest

I never in a million years thought I would be the person to go to for self-esteem; that was not my intent. But I happen to love beauty, I love the way people look, and I love making women look beautiful.

Love Beauty Women Beautiful People

But on this show, it's a good question because in the 35 shows that we've done now, I've really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to be more prepared than feature directors.

Anthony Michael Hall

Good Shadow Effort Done Now More

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