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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party."
"I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director."
"Rome was great in arms, in government, in law."
"True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions."
"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."
"Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that."
"There's way easier ways to make money, let's just put it that way."
"Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid."
"If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable."
"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."
"Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took."
"On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur."
"Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people."
"Every candidate goes into every debate hoping that they can own a particular moment."
"When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite."
"Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself."
"I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog."
"I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions."
"I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good."
"The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed."
"My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible."
"After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall."
"To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself."
"In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded - self-confident. Something she wasn't."
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
"Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty."
"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."
"I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it."
"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input."
"Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people."
"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
"I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity."
"And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge."
"I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do."
"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature."
"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."
"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
"When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy."
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