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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth."
"I don't expect that the million will ever be won, simply because there is no confirming evidence for any paranormal claims to date."
"I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat."
"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?"
"We're not very accepting of people who act strangely."
"I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start."
"Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."
"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."
"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."
"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."
"I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium."
"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
"What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not."
"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."
"When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years."
"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."
"Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor."
"Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it."
"You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart."
"It felt like a very, very weird thing to go on the set on September 13th. I would never want to glorify that."
"It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."
"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
"Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials."
"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
"I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at."
"The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting."
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."
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