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Quotes by Canadian Authors

"My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives."
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Nicholas Lea
"My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives."
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"Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was."
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Michael J. Fox
"Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was."
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"That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers."
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Todd McFarlane
"That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers."
"Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn't: holes, lack, deficiency."
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Ann Voskamp
"Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn't: holes, lack, deficiency."
"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."
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Michael Ondaatje
"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."
"Typical Pollution, they're always living in the wrong place at the wrong time."
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Rebecca McNutt
"Typical Pollution, they're always living in the wrong place at the wrong time."
"If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it."
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Stephen Leacock
"If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it."
"Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?"
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Ann Voskamp
"Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?"
"We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that."
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Steven Cojocaru
"We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that."
"I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is."
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Michael Shanks
"I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is."
"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."
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Robertson Davies
"If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual."
"We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves."
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Sarah McLachlan
"We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves."
"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
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J. Philippe Rushton
"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
"Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."
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Neve Campbell
"Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
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Laurence J. Peter
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
"I want to leave this company in the best possible shape."
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Karen Kain
"I want to leave this company in the best possible shape."
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"The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya."
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Tommy Chong
"The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya."
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"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"
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Arthur Erickson
"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"
"I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination."
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L. M. Montgomery
"I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination."
"All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive."
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Yann Martel
"All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive."
"When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will."
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
"When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will."
"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
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Rudolph A. Marcus
"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
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Laurence J. Peter
"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
"At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming."
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Nicholas Lea
"At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming."
"It's hard for me to just practice without writing something."
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Geddy Lee
"It's hard for me to just practice without writing something."
"Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor."
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Sebastian Bach
"Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor."
"He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do."
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Kevin McDonald
"He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do."
"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."
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Simon Newcomb
"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."
"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."
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Rachel McAdams
"If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling."
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"We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time."
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Steve Yzerman
"We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time."
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"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
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Maurice Strong
"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."
"The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered."
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Todd McFarlane
"The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered."
"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."
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Rick Moranis
"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."
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"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days."
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days."
"No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything."
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William Shatner
"No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything."
"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."
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Laurence J. Peter
"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."
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"We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out."
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Tommy Chong
"We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out."
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"I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means."
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Sarah McLachlan
"I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means."
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"Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself."
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Neve Campbell
"Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself."
"Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me."
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Jim Carrey
"Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me."
"I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me."
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Paul Haggis
"I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me."
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
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Leonard Cohen
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
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"We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss."
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Bernie Ebbers
"We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss."
"The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun."
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Lexa Doig
"The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun."
"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
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Morley Safer
"You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that."
"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to."
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Sarah McLachlan
"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to."
"Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours."
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William Vickrey
"Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours."
"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success."
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Todd McFarlane
"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success."
"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities."
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Alan Thicke
"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities."
"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter."
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Simon Newcomb
"A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter."
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