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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul."
"We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it."
"Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally."
"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."
"Statism is an unnatural disaster."
"If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed."
"Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive."
"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing."
"On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur."
"It's been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity, than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation."
"It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint."
"Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you."
"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."
"When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands."
"Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes."
"I like the sound of that, crashing Monica's party," he glanced at Michael, then quickly away. "What about you? That break some kind of vampire rules or something?""Blow me Shane.""Boys," Eve said primly. "Language. Minor at the table.""Well," Shane said, "I wasn't actually planning to do it."Claire rolled her eyes. "Not like it's the first time I've heard it. Or said it.""You shouldnt say it," Michael said, all seriousness. "No, I mean it. Girls should say 'eat me' not 'blow me'. Wouldn't recommend 'bite me' though. Not around here."
"There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four."
"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."
"Amelie said, "I won't be your servant in Morganville. Nor should you be mine. Equals. She offered her hand to him, and he looked down at it, clearly taken aback. But he took it. "Now defend what is ours, my partner. He grinned, grinned! and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked."
"I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope."
"I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar."
"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."
"What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?"
"Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats."
"It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus."
"Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense."
"In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true."
"When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise."
"I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness."
"I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed."
"I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs."
"At the very leadt, we can grab Monica and hustle her skanky ass back to her dad wile you brave, strong menfolk hold off the bad guys. Right?"
"Or maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at you, that you didn't even know the lyrics to your all-time favourite song. Only afterwards, when someone else is up on stage humiliating themselves amid the clapping and laughing, do you realize that what you liked most about your favourite song was precisely your ignorance of its full meaning - and you read more into it than maybe existed in the first place. I think it's better not to know the lyrics to your life."
"I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band."
"I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive."
"It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers."
"Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts."
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