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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog."
"I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more."
"Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption."
"We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?"
"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance."
"As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound."
"I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad."
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns."
"When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss."
"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."
"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates."
"They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed."
"All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly."
"Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids."
"I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century."
"If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it."
"When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe."
"So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue."
"The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago."
"I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy."
"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."
"Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts."
"I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music."
"Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it."
"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."
"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."
"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
"Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story."
"I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing."
"And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself."
"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."
"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."
"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former."
"Just why I sent it to the publishers would be hard to say, but when I had finished it I felt that it was literature, because it is real and because it was well written. And I know that the world wants such things."
"I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say."
"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration."
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