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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."
"If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course."
"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."
"I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way."
"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
"And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true."
"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities."
"I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot."
"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."
"I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do."
"Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time."
"We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic."
"I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real."
"In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels."
"I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water."
"Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor."
"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."
"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."
"If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good."
"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."
"I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at."
"It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world."
"People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world."
"Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon."
"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically."
"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
"I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it."
"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
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