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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy."
"I used to want to be a cop for a brief time, a detective, solving crimes and upholding the law, ever since I stated watching crime shows in junior high. But being a cop, contrary to what many believe, isn't like the films or television shows that we see every day. If you're the cop who has to have the grim duty of telling a parent that their child was killed, or who loses their friend on a dangerous case, or who has to interview victims of horrible crimes, somehow I imagine that you just want to quit forever on some days."
"With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome."
"In allowing the crucifixion to take place, God did the world an incalculable favor. Though infinitely powerful, compassionate, and wise, he could think of no other way to reprieve humanity from punishment for its sins (in particular, for the sin of being descended from a couple who had disobeyed him) than to allow an innocent man (his son no less) to be impaled through the limbs and slowly suffocate in agony. By acknowledging that this sadistic murder was a gift of divine mercy, people could earn eternal life. And if they failed to see the logic in all this, their flesh would be seared by fire for all eternity."
"I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian."
"Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings."
"In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness."
"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
"So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God."
"George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already."
"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."
"It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers."
"If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard."
"Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness."
"I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having."
"The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate."
"Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy."
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
"Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio."
"It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day."
"I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too."
"Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more."
"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
"The violence of a lower-class man may indeed express rage, but it is aimed not at society but at the asshole who scraped his car and dissed him in front of a crowd."
"I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity."
"The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it."
"I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create."
"As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, "Life was better since the government came because "a man could now eat without looking over his shoulder and could leave his house in the morning to urinate without fear of being shot."
"She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, "I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before."
"I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces."
"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive."
"Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind."
"Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful."
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