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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body."
"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression."
"I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly."
"I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing."
"The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here."
"No designer has really wowed me yet, I'm into other people's recommendations when it comes to fashion."
"We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility."
"My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York."
"Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked."
"Being a villain is great, even though I've only gotten to do it a few times."
"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
"I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them."
"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."
"I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing."
"I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone."
"It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions."
"I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength."
"We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise."
"The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind."
"Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up."
"Mandy was thinking back to when she was five years old, when she, her parents and Jud went outside before Christmas and had a snowball fight with the gray snow of Sydney Mines. "This is a wicked blast, Jud would say, and Mandy would snap photos with a 35mm disposable film camera, photos she wished very much she could step into sometimes."
"There are some things in the past that, that just aren't meant to be viewed."
"I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism."
"Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all."
"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."
"Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong."
"The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party."
"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever."
"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."
"I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?"
"So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad."
"Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time."
"You have to remember the band played from 1960 to 1965, every night. You get into a rut playing nightclubs every night, and you didn't want to run it into the ground."
"Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive."
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