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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience."
"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've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That."
"For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general."
"Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream."
"I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too..."
"Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased."
"Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long."
"Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit."
"I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ..."
"November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully...just like a stately old lady who knows she can be charming even with gray hair and wrinkles. We've had lovely days and delicious twilights."
"So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bread for us near starved. For the Savior in swaddlings who makes Himself the robe of righteousness for us worn out. For Jesus, who makes precisely what none of us can but all of us want: Christmas."
"The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle."
"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
"That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere."
"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
"Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert."
"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."
"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."
"There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you."
"I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on."
"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
"Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality."
"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."
"It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes."
"I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything."
"If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity."
"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."
"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
"We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."
"Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think."
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