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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well."
"I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way."
"It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen."
"Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich."
"I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive."
"Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express."
"They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly."
"I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent."
"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level."
"I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life."
"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend."
"I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor."
"I think the crux of the matter was that if we were going to become partners in, for example, the International Space Station, we had to gain the respect of a country like the United States and particularly its space organization, NASA."
"When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity."
"The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November."
"The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena."
"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."
"What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority."
"I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success."
"If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state."
"It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways."
"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
"We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided."
"I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes."
"I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no."
"I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one."
"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."
"I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that."
"The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like."
"When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times."
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