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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?"
"Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin."
"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent."
"Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
"I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America."
"For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general."
"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
"Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience."
"Anger is the immune system of the soul."
"If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it."
"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work."
"The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity."
"Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister."
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
"The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand."
"The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution."
"I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too."
"Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin."
"To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma."
"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
"There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off."
"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope."
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
"You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke," Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham."
"You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it's been something I've been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it's something I hope to continue because it's interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor."
"The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience."
"The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud."
"You knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on..."
"You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real."
"I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ..."
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