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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."
"If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick."
"Usury once in control will wreck the nation."
"AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations."
"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."
"So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear."
"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to."
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
"The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw."
"It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required."
"The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control."
"I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you."
"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
"I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward."
"Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent."
"Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do."
"Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."
"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."
"Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. “Callo, I'm so sorry that your life ended up this way,” she sighs as she gets out of her side of the car, her feet burning from the cold as her high heels sink into the fallen snow. “Aren't you scared?”
"I'm you, Geraldine— I fell into the same trap as you, anyway,” Callo answers. His large eyes are shining with tears, but he doesn't seem afraid in the least. “The dead don't feel anything, you know— not even guilt or regret. So, what is there to be afraid of?”
"If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't."
"I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence."
"Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do."
"Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations."
"I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it."
"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
"Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it."
"If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom."
"I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt."
"Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie."
"The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one."
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