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Quotes by Canadian Authors

"I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward."


"Others too would occasionally entertain and privately express such doubts; though we all had been most solemnly warned by the cruel murder of Saint Francis."

"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."

"A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced."

"What's supposed to be and what is, are two very different things."


"I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence."


"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."

"With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable."

"Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption."

"Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters."

"The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs."

"I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara."

"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."

"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."

"Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims."

"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."

"Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned."

"She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about? Mandy questioned."Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought? Alecto asked quietly."

"I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky."

"You have two choices... You can make the BEST of IT or you can let IT get the BEST of you!"

"The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away."

"I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe."

"I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him."

"Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell."

"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992."

"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."

"I really have to keep an eye on myself, because sometimes I think I might say something important."

"I would compare that to when I first started with the Montreal Canadiens; it was a big family then, where the guys really stuck together and worked like a unit. But when I came back in '88, it was not like that anymore."

"And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge."
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