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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison."
"The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters."
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
"I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection."
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."
"You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely."
"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."
"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."
"On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones."
"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."
"I'm a big fan of CNN. I watched it from the beginning."
"I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes."
"I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book."
"I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character."
"The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis."
"To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher."
"As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes."
"The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite."
"I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about."
"I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am."
"So, I completely and utterly support David and Gillian's decision to go to Los Angeles, but I think that Vancouver is the perfect location for the show."
"There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other."
"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."
"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways."
"Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly."
"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."
"Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so."
"As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything."
"At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far."
"No one can take the shot for you."
"The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not."
"I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years."
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