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"There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive."
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"My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian."

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

"There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada."

"South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated."

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

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

"Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes."

"Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit."
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"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag."
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