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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
"Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything."
"At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory."
"The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs."
"Usury once in control will wreck the nation."
"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
"The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body."
"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."
"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
"Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities."
"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."
"If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived."
"I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive."
"Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play."
"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically."
"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
"I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter."
"Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters."
"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
"If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved."
"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 still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running."
"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up."
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
"That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find."
"When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want."
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
"I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward."
"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."
"The environment on set is very encouraging."
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