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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science."
"I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing."
"The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November."
"I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it."
"Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play."
"If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state."
"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
"The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds."
"If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be."
"The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like."
"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."
"I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing."
"I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous."
"When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times."
"The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here."
"The loss of my child broke my spirit."
"No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion."
"Life is a purposeful action."
"Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times."
"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
"Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives."
"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face."
"I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing."
"All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of."
"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."
"But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience."
"The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind."
"What other people think about me is not my business."
"Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. "This is a wicked blast, Jud would say, and Mandy would snap photos with a 35mm disposable film camera, photos she wished very much she could step into sometimes."
"But marriage is forever.'Oh, not really,' he assured her. 'Only until one of us dies.'Her eyes widened. 'I do not want you to die,' she said.'Perhaps you will go first,' he said, 'though I rather think I hope not. I would probably have grown accustomed to you by then and would miss you."
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
"But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been."
"I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters."
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