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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"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."
"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."
"On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience."
"I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher."
"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."
"To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was."
"The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself."
"I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto."
"I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching."
"Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert."
"The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film."
"Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people."
"People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success."
"If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me."
"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
"It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do."
"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."
"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."
"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."
"If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly."
"Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively."
"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."
"Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer."
"I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing."
"I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are."
"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others."
"What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem."
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