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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them."
"I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing."
"So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible."
"I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important."
"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination."
"I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment."
"If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain."
"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."
"My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe."
"That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy."
"I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't."
"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
"I'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue very blue almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this seventeen never knows it. At seventeen dreams do satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on."
"They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable."
"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective."
"Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series."
"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
"I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity."
"That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are."
"My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean."
"If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer."
"Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense."
"Shane looked faintly injured. "I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway. There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn't have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it."
"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."
"Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments."
"It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear."
"This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other."
"The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke."
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