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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done."
"I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much."
"Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
"There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government."
"I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits."
"I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal."
"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."
"All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am."
"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel."
"I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years."
"The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty."
"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series."
"THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government."
"My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's my main concern. I know that my legs are going to take awhile to get back to where I was a few years ago, but as long as my back is solid, I feel that I can play many years."
"As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound."
"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."
"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."
"It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa."
"I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs."
"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."
"I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century."
"The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with."
"Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match."
"Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though."
"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
"Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys."
"Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities."
"As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with."
"Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic."
"Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am."
"I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honourable gentlemen opposite that did not represent to the people that I was not a Minister of the Crown, but that I was a Protestant minister."
"The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds."
"Some people continue to pretend that anchor people are reporters."
"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."
"A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it."
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