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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces."
"Madness is only an amplification of what you already are."
"Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear."
"Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK."
"Yes, writing is mostly a dream, but angels visit in dreams."
"Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat."
"If you give up, you reward failure."
"I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same."
"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
"When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me."
"I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off."
"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
"The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society."
"Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs."
"There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism."
"But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?"
"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business."
"We're not very accepting of people who act strangely."
"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."
"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others."
"Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."
"People should be allowed the freedom to make their own choices. They should be able to buy or not buy porn and be monogamous or promiscuous as they see fit."
"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
"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."
"I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money."
"Usury once in control will wreck the nation."
"All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly."
"Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be."
"If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it."
"I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy."
"I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music."
"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."
"I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!"
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