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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge."
"There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally."
"We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it."
"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business."
"Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities."
"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."
"Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles."
"I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere."
"Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation."
"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand."
"So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear."
"I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!"
"I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life."
"I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing."
"I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive."
"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration."
"I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it."
"It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters."
"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously."
"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."
"George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam."
"After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really."
"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
"Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women."
"No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?"
"There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general."
"I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible."
"I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more."
"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 was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process."
"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
"Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do."
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