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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks."
"Money isn't everything. It's the only thing."
"You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way."
"The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences."
"There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity."
"I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America."
"My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all."
"If the metaphors in everyday speech are a clue, then all of us associate blankness with virtue rather than with nothingness. Think of the moral connotations of the adjectives: clean, fair, immaculate, lily-white, pure, spotless, unmarred and unsullied."
"You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair."
"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends."
"The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope."
"There is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go..."
"Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death."
"Behavioral science is not for sissies."
"They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable."
"The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing-a blanket-the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water."
"His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile."
"When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near."
"A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?"
"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."
"An old walrus-faced waiter attended to me; he had the knack of pouring the coffee and the hot milk from two jugs, held high in the air, and I found this entrancing, as if he were a child's magician. One day he said to me - he had some English - "Why are you sad?""I'm not sad," I said, and began to cry. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous."You should not be sad," he said, gazing at me with his melancholy, leathery walrus eyes. "It must be the love. But you are young and pretty, you will have time to be sad later." The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all the kinds. This is why they have bidets. "It is criminal, the love," he said, patting my shoulder. "But none is worse."
"How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does."
"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
"The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output."
"And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies."
"You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad."
"Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril."
"Dear White Fella When I am born I'm black When I grow up I'm black When I am sick I'm black When I go out ina sun I'm black When I git cold I'm black When I git scared I'm black And when I die I'm still black. But you white fella When you're born you're pink When you grow up you're white When you git sick you're green When you go out ina sun you go red When you git cold you go blue When you git scared you're yellow And when you die you're grey And you got the cheek to call me coloured?"
"Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat."
"I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'"
"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."
"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."
"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."
"There were places you didn't want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive."
"If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane."
"I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it."
"So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix."
"Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over."
"I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am."
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