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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other."
"I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life."
"We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic."
"I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real."
"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."
"Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys."
"We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself."
"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
"That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression."
"A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead."
"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man."
"The mill cannot grind with the water that is past."
"I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety."
"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former."
"One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic."
"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
"I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say."
"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."
"It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters."
"I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level."
"My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then."
"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."
"Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway."
"George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam."
"I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement."
"Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked."
"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
"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."
"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council."
"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."
"Apple has great marketing, among the best PR and marketing in the world."
"A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced."
"Domestic violence is any behavior involving physical, psychological, emotional, sexual or verbal abuse. It is any form of aggression intended to hurt, damage, or kill an intimate person."
"Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time."
"Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind."
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