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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company."
"We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping."
"If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"
"Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then."
"You couldn't leave words lying around where our enemies might find them."
"Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked up the next part and slotted it in, took the screwdriver from Claire's numbed fingers, and fastened it with a couple of deft, fast movements. "I'll be your hands."She wanted to cry, because it was so sweet, but it wouldn't do any good."
"Super 8 film is the language of silence."
"People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far."
"You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it."
"The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings."
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
"Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation."
"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."
"One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either."
"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
"All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that."
"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."
"I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits."
"And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!"
"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."
"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
"I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman."
"Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it."
"That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least."
"I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat."
"I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle."
"Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you."
"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."
"I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start."
"I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything."
"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't."
"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."
"We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?"
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