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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
"As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can."
"Some people come to Morganville and collapse, Michael said as he put the car in motion. "I've seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just-bloom. You're one of those. Claire didn't feel especially bloomy. "So you're saying I thrive on chaos."
"I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination."
"I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer."
"Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?"
"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."
"I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible."
"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."
"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place."
"I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm."
"If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us."
"When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout."
"I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week."
"The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah..."
"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."
"Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston."
"My first movie was this independent that I did on the Erie Canal in 1995, called Erie, that I don't know if you could even get, actually with Felicity Huffman. And then from that I did this film that was eventually called The Broken Giant later that fall. And then I kind of started getting into doing pilots."
"I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them."
"That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere."
"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."
"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."
"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."
"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options."
"He is ready, if the occasion presents itself, to throw the whole English population in the St. Lawrence."
"I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting."
"The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity."
"To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know."
"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."
"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."
"Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster."
"Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards."
"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
"Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater."
"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
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