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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle."
"Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it."
"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."
"That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain."
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."
"As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world."
"The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious."
"When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week."
"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."
"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."
"Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby."
"The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear."
"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."
"Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play."
"Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it."
"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."
"Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't."
"There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness."
"My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then."
"I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'"
"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."
"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."
"They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down."
"Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women."
"It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity."
"Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that."
"We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party."
"Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death."
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