top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Canadian Authors
"There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me."
"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."
"I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal."
"I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you."
"Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it."
"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."
"I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences."
"Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government."
"I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years."
"I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start."
"I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation."
"If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity."
"I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble."
"We're losing society to apathy, to digital technology, the people who care about nobody else but themselves. They share every little detail of their stupid lives online as if the world even gives a damn— digital technology is getting smarter and society is getting dumber," Mandy whispered in a voice filled with disbelief. "Society is— it's slipping away."
"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."
"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
"I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything."
"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird."
"I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel."
"It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa."
"We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits."
"Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them."
"What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not."
"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."
"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."
"Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation."
"We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other."
"We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss."
"The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter."
"It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it."
"The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body."
"I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down."
bottom of page