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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility."
"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?"
"At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well."
"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."
"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."
"No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud."
"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."
"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
"My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches."
"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."
"I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films."
"They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being."
"In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking."
"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 never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it,seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?"
"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her."
"At the very leadt, we can grab Monica and hustle her skanky ass back to her dad wile you brave, strong menfolk hold off the bad guys. Right?"
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
"Anger is the immune system of the soul."
"At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold."
"Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera."
"Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around."
"We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals."
"Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends, but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own."
"Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister."
"Oh hell no. Guys don't talk about that crap."You're serious."Really."What do you talk about?Shane looked at her as if she were insane. "You know. Stuff. We're not girls. We don't talk about our feelings. I mean, not to other guys.Claire rolled her eyes and said, "Fine, be emotionally stunted losers; I don't care."
"Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length."
"You should have trusted me. I'm really tired of people not trusting me."
"Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with."
"The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution."
"Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming."
"Myths aren't fairy tales or legends-they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries..."
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