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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment."
"As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception."
"With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome."
"We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor."
"There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all."
"My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'."
"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."
"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 so glad you're okay.""So, how do we celebrate my okayness? It's my day off. Let's go crazy. Glow-in-the-dark bowling?""No""I'll let you use the kiddie ball.""Shut up. I do NOT need the kiddie ball.""The way you bowl, I think you might."He grabbed her in an exaggerated formal dance pose and whirled her around, backpack and all, which didn't make her any more graceful. "Ballroom dancing?""Are you INSANE?""Hey, girls who tango are hot.""You think I'm not hot because I don't tango?"He dropped the act. Shane was a smart boy. "I think you are too hot for ballroom or bowling. So you tell me. What do you want to do? And don't say study."
"It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it."
"If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams."
"Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives."
"Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera."
"And then I heard the ring of metal on concrete, and I went cold, because one of them had found a piece of rebar lying around, and I knew with sudden certainty that these guys were going to kill me right here on this stupid sidewalk, for nothing, without even the reason of knowing my name or hating my politics. They were just going to kill me because they needed to kill something, and I was handy. At least zombies would have had a reason."
"That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage."
"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
"A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ..."
"Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length."
"The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth."
"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."
"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."
"Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more."
"It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality."
"Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them."
"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."
"The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it."
"I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway."
"In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves."
"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive."
"Government is a gun that shoots money at your enemy and blows up in your face."
"Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind."
"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
"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."
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