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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"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 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."
"Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love."
"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."
"I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends."
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
"A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species."
"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
"Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada."
"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."
"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."
"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."
"About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load."
"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks."
"As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors."
"My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball."
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
"It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw."
"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."
"It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game."
"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
"On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones."
"I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously."
"I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here."
"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."
"As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence."
"Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company."
"I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next."
"Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries."
"It is always the village women who drive these things."
"Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears."
"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."
"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity."
"I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?"
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