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"There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive."
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"Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers."

"When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials."

"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."

"I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada."

"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."

"I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid."

"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."

"Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians."
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"What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?"

"However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all."

"The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like."

"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."

"I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know."

"For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general."

"A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding."

"And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time."
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