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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
"It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality."
"Well... Actually I got picked because I was the only one who fit the wedding gown - they had my size."
"Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?..."
"Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry."
"I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs."
"Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science."
"I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer."
"Worrying about money is one of the worst worries. It's like having locked-in syndrome, except you're still moving around and doing things. Your head burns. If other people are not having money problems, it pisses you off because it reminds you that you're limited in the ways you can express your agency in the world, and they aren't. Worrying about money is anger-inducing because it makes you think about time: how many dollars per hour, how much salary per year, how many years until retirement. Worrying about money forces you to do endless math in your head, and most people didn't like math in high school and they don't like it now."
"Madness is only an amplification of what you already are."
"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."
"The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke."
"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place."
"We get along like a house on fire these days."
"Action makes more fortune than caution."
"If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us."
"Super 8 film is the language of silence."
"The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah..."
"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."
"Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear."
"Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin."
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."
"I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."
"You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway."
"The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states."
"Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate."
"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying."
"The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity."
"Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount."
"I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale."
"I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films."
"The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group."
"In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country."
"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."
"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."
"I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation."
"Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."
"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."
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