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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"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."
"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council."
"The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases."
"What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world."
"There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable."
"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."
"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."
"The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind."
"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford."
"I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out."
"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist."
"I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression."
"Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality."
"My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals."
"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
"I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing."
"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine."
"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing."
"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"
"You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again."
"What we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes."
"You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles."
"Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine."
"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."
"I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction only lasts five minutes."
"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."
"With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome."
"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."
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