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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I do recommend it for all girls, and boys, out there: put on a pair of fishnet stockings and find your inner sexiness!"
"I'm faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I'm a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. "If you get in trouble, I'll be there."Nice, Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey."No, you're not."Okay, no, I'm not, but right now let's pretend I am."
"My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'."
"My main point is to entertain in a way that is unique and different from what anybody else id doing; to apply my voice in a way that nobody else in the industry is applying theirs."
"I'm going to have to give him shit for all this,' Shane said, as he wandered around. 'He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?''People who like things neat?''Its not natural."
"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families."
"The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand."
"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."
"Some people come to Morganville and collapse, Michael said as he put the car in motion. "I've seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just-bloom. You're one of those. Claire didn't feel especially bloomy. "So you're saying I thrive on chaos."
"They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind."
"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
"My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean."
"I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway."
"I had a dog once. I thought so much of him that when he died I couldn't bear the thought of getting another in his place. He was a FRIEND-you understand, Mistress Blythe? Matey's only a pal. I'm fond of Matey-all the fonder on account of the spice of devilment that's in him-like there is in all cats. But I LOVED my dog. I always had a sneaking sympathy for Alexander Elliott about HIS dog. There isn't any devil in a good dog. That's why they're more lovable than cats, I reckon."
"Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or thirst for blood), which builds up inside us and must periodically be discharged. Nothing could be further from a contemporary scientific understanding of the psychology of violence. Aggression is not a single motive, let alone a mounting urge. It is the output of several psychological systems that differ in their environmental triggers, their internal logic, their neurobiological basis, and their social distribution."
"Last night I watched the weather channel, as is my habit. Elsewhere in the world there are floods: roiling brown water, bloated cows floating by, survivors huddled on rooftops. Thousands have drowned. Global warming is held accountable: People must stop burning things up, it is said. Gasoline, oil, whole forests. But they won't stop. Greed and hunger lash them on, as usual."
"There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us."
"You need a very, exceptionally clear vision. And to me, a vision is something that you can say in one sentence. The fewer the words the better."
"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."
"Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it."
"I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done."
"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."
"If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick."
"When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way."
"Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky."
"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
"Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes."
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