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Lara St. John

"There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive."

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

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"Scotland is the Canada of England!"

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"We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada."

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"The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same."

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"Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it."

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"Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective."

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"When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?""

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

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"Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged."

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"The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is."

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Lara St. John
"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure."

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Lara St. John
"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."

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Lara St. John
"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."

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Lara St. John
"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."

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

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Lara St. John
"Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions."

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Lara St. John
"There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive."

Canada

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Lara St. John
"Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time."

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Lara St. John
"Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways."

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"Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists."

Art

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