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Quotes by Canadian Authors

"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star."

"Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done."

"You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him."

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something."

"However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance."

"What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material."

"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."

"My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends."

"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."

"Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag."

"Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help."

"You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway."

"I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done."

"Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to."

"In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader."

"So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what."

"I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience."

"They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other."

"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel."

"I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films."

"I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role."

"Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might."

"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."

"I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done."

"In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God."

"Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve."
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