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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me."
"My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible."
"Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time."
"I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment."
"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds."
"Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved."
"Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand something when you know what it is not."
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."
"With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time."
"If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it."
"Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness."
"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
"It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it."
"In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others."
"It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you."
"He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it."
"The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some."
"The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil."
"You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school."
"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."
"To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!"
"Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testament, St. Peter's stands at their head."
"We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping."
"The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings."
"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
"It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry."
"I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it."
"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options."
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
"The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society."
"Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away."
"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
"I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman."
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