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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth."
"We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world."
"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946."
"I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing."
"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."
"Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?"
"Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments."
"I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be."
"November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully...just like a stately old lady who knows she can be charming even with gray hair and wrinkles. We've had lovely days and delicious twilights."
"We get along like a house on fire these days."
"The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started."
"For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at."
"Evil ethicists are the holocaust of humanity; if philosophy can be the instant sunlight to their endless vampirism, it will save more lives than all the doctors who have ever lived."
"Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now."
"I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow-written on, rewritten, smoothed over."
"There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance."
"PENTHOUSE didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces."
"The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle."
"Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness."
"When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials."
"As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did."
"In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty."
"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement."
"A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich."
"I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing."
"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."
"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."
"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel."
"The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group."
"The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty."
"And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing."
"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."
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