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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness."
"If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane."
"The thing is, playing with us, whoever was the left winger had to come to play every night because that's the way it was. Charlie came in and he just fit that role - big and strong around the net."
"The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal."
"The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary."
"Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it."
"I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life."
"I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off."
"So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix."
"At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada."
"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."
"Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount."
"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped."
"As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions."
"I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge."
"We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment."
"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
"We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it."
"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel."
"I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years."
"In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country."
"Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching."
"Over the last two decades, America has increased its demand for oil by nearly 30 percent, yet we have not expanded our ability to produce domestic sources of fuel."
"We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know."
"We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers."
"Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian."
"I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it."
"Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch."
"We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out."
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