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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there."
"I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level."
"Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war."
"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."
"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."
"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself."
"In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies."
"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."
"You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story."
"To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time."
"I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change."
"I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy."
"I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America."
"I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist."
"If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't."
"You have more issues than Reader's Digest."
"Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away."
"My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die."
"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."
"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."
"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."
"People are often wary of reading or watching anything in the horror genre because in their minds, it's just senseless gore, death and violence. Well, I can tell you from avid experience, that's not what horror is about. The horror genre teaches us that sometimes really bad things happen to really good people, but that hope always prevails in even the darkest of situations. That's a very important lesson, no matter how frightening you think the teacher is, and to be in the top of her class, all you need to do is to go in with an open mind."
"For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done."
"I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain."
"I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere."
"Deep connection is the antidote to madness."
"It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun."
"There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four."
"We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race."
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."
"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."
"Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level."
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