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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game."
"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."
"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft."
"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."
"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 think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform."
"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."
"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."
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind 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 just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to."
"I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way."
"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."
"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."
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
"That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong."
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
"It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game."
"But the irony: Don't I often want to desperately wriggle free of the confines of a small life? Yet when I stand before immensity that heightens my smallness--I have never felt sadness. Only burgeoning wonder. Is it because within each frame of finite flesh lies the likeness of infinite God? In all things large and spectacular, we recognize glimpses of home and the call to our own deeper chemistry. Do we writhe to peel out of our smallness and into the big life because that fits our inborn God-image?"
"I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit."
"I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot."
"On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones."
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."
"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
"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."
"I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed."
"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."
"Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all."
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