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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."
"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
"Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director."
"These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?"
"I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came."
"At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well."
"I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere."
"The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer."
"Deep connection is the antidote to madness."
"My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches."
"My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible."
"This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things."
"You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level."
"In allowing the crucifixion to take place, God did the world an incalculable favor. Though infinitely powerful, compassionate, and wise, he could think of no other way to reprieve humanity from punishment for its sins (in particular, for the sin of being descended from a couple who had disobeyed him) than to allow an innocent man (his son no less) to be impaled through the limbs and slowly suffocate in agony. By acknowledging that this sadistic murder was a gift of divine mercy, people could earn eternal life. And if they failed to see the logic in all this, their flesh would be seared by fire for all eternity."
"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992."
"Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level."
"I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That."
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."
"Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don't know why, and if we do find out why, it's decades later and knowing why doesn't matter any more."
"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."
"I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity."
"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."
"I'm going to have to give him shit for all this,' Shane said, as he wandered around. 'He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?''People who like things neat?''Its not natural."
"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
"If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard."
"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."
"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."
"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."
"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."
"Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy."
"When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling."
"I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too."
"Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously."
"I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right?""No," he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. "It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you."
"It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you."
"As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, "Life was better since the government came because "a man could now eat without looking over his shoulder and could leave his house in the morning to urinate without fear of being shot."
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