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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment."
"Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening."
"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."
"It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself."
"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being."
"They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind."
"Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes."
"We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage."
"...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world."
"That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo."
"A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it."
"Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade."
"We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot."
"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."
"I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching."
"I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from."
"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."
"We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand."
"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."
"I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously."
"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."
"What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority."
"I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
"My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful."
"The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition."
"The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease."
"Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that."
"What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years."
"Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."
"I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance."
"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases."
"I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time."
"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."
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