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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business."
"A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ..."
"I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me."
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
"Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith."
"They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that."
"To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits."
"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
"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."
"You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams."
"Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well."
"Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry."
"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."
"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."
"A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?"
"I want to leave this company in the best possible shape."
"Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit."
"I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination."
"I hardly dare believe it after that horrible day last summer. I have had a heart ache ever since then. But it is gone now."This baby will take Joy's place. Said Marilla."Oh, no no no Marilla. He can't, nothing can ever do that. He has his own place, my dear wee man child. But little Joy has hers, and always will have it."
"Madness is only an amplification of what you already are."
"However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once."
"I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible."
"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."
"November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully...just like a stately old lady who knows she can be charming even with gray hair and wrinkles. We've had lovely days and delicious twilights."
"Action makes more fortune than caution."
"The best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ..."
"Super 8 film is the language of silence."
"And I think it's a real challenge to be up there sometimes with only a keyboard if they don't have a grand piano... and to try to win people over that way. It's really hard."
"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."
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
"The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable."
"Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness."
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