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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary."
"There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government."
"I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw."
"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."
"Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy."
"We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude."
"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."
"Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you'll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty."
"We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it."
"Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet."
"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."
"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?"
"Hey. Shane's hip nudged her chair, and he bent over, putting his mouth very close to her ear."What are you doing?"Thinking."Stop."Stop thinking?"You're doing way too much of it. It'll make you go blind.She laughed and turned her face toward his. "I think you're thinking of something else."
"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."
"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
"Grief is a disease. We were riddled with its pockmarks, tormented by its fevers, broken by its blows. It ate at us like maggots, attacked us like lice- we scratched ourselves to the edge of madness. In the process we became as withered as crickets, as tired as old dogs."
"The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me."
"I'm faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I'm a vampire, Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. "If you get in trouble, I'll be there."Nice, Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey."No, you're not."Okay, no, I'm not, but right now let's pretend I am."
"Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve."
"The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy."
"Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. 'Will you swear?'And Myrnin said, shockingly, 'I will.' And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords that made Claire blink. He ended with, '-frothy fool-born apple-john! Cheater of vandals and defiler of dead dogs!' and did another twirl and bow. He looked up with a red, red grin that was more like a leer. 'Is that what you meant, my lord?"
"Amelie said, "I won't be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals. She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. "Now defend what is ours, my partner. He grinned, grinned! and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked."
"My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'."
"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
"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."
"The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground."
"I can't look people in the eye and tell them that they're going to die anymore."
"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."
"The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences."
"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
"If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rather than with nothingness. Think of the moral connotations of the adjectives: clean, fair, immaculate, lily-white, pure, spotless, unmarred and unsullied."
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