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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"
"The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical."
"My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York."
"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."
"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."
"The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike."
"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."
"When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it."
"I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change."
"If everything is very important, then nothing is important."
"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."
"His cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend."
"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."
"It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions."
"You have more issues than Reader's Digest."
"Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up."
"Walking your talk is a great way to motivate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be honest with yourself, and you will find the motivation to do what you advise others to do."
"You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold."
"For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford."
"With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable."
"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
"I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people."
"One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again."
"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."
"True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions."
"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."
"My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve."
"Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time."
"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."
"Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself."
"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."
"The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies."
"The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed."
"I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films."
"It's fun to be hopelessly in love. It's dangerous, but it's fun."
"I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of."
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