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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that."
"There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said."
"I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting."
"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."
"We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time."
"There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure."
"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
"I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon."
"When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum."
"We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We're prepared to lose some money along the way. Eventually we're going to need some help."
"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."
"They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer."
"If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States."
"It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns."
"I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization."
"I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication."
"Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains."
"The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being."
"I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once."
"Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own."
"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
"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."
"People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all."
"I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money."
"Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk."
"I'm all right, Nic," Wolfe said, and finally looked at him. "We walked through the dungeons under Rome, survived Philadelphia, and this perfumed cage won't bring us to our knees. We're all stronger than that.""All right," Santi said. "But don't ask me to stop standing next to you. Because you know I will, however much you shout about it."
"To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination."
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