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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions."
"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."
"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
"I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important."
"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination."
"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work."
"I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike."
"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."
"We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."
"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."
"It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear."
"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."
"I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'"
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
"I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am."
"I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up."
"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."
"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."
"Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation."
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