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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over."
"I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game."
"I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now."
"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
"Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky."
"Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade."
"I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same."
"That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere."
"I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?"
"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."
"Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert."
"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."
"Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus."
"In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy."
"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."
"Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease."
"There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts."
"I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting."
"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."
"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
"The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public."
"Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect."
"I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous."
"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."
"I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale."
"The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you."
"We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand."
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