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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else."
"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."
"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."
"I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set."
"I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak."
"It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words."
"Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings."
"The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate."
"If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed."
"Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision."
"I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere."
"If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?"
"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time."
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively"Don't they teach you anything in your schools?".""Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google."
"I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment."
"I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian."
"I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope."
"I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye."
"When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise."
"I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed."
"It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it."
"I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well."
"I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy."
"And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason."
"We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals."
"Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision."
"Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy."
"It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it."
"Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two."
"You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there."
"We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world."
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