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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
"I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope."
"If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die."
"I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa."
"You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely."
"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
"To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher."
"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story."
"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."
"There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications."
"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."
"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."
"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
"I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes."
"I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian."
"Money is a poor man's credit card."
"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents."
"There are thousands of girls out there who could be doing my job."
"As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything."
"I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am."
"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can."
"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
"That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong."
"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
"I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it."
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."
"As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes."
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