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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance."
"I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs."
"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."
"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."
"Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy."
"As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved."
"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"
"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?”
"I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions."
"I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw."
"You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan."
"I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time."
"It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words."
"Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve."
"I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually."
"When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling."
"I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight."
"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."
"The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud."
"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."
"But, someone, please give me-who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew-give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?"
"Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear."
"Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics."
"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."
"You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them."
"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
"The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii."
"It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated."
"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience."
"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."
"To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know."
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