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Quotes by Canadian Authors

"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."

"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."


"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."

"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."

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

"I want to leave this company in the best possible shape."


"The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya."

"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"

"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."

"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."


"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."


"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."


"We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time."

"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."


"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."

"That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days."

"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."


"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."


"I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means."

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

"We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss."

"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."


"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."


"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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