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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away."
"Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert."
"Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered."
"Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men."
"I always see things that I can improve. But frankly with Stripes, I'm surprised at how effective it is, even today, and how vibrant that movie is and how juicy the performances all are."
"I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off."
"Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries."
"Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment."
"Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."
"It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp."
"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
"You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot."
"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
"I am through with this body, and what becomes of it will make no difference with me in the future."
"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo."
"Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it."
"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing."
"However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way."
"There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive."
"Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room."
"There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government."
"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford."
"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."
"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
"Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience."
"This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things."
"So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution."
"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."
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