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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."
"We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us."
"Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of."
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
"The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party."
"They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in."
"I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke."
"When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them."
"The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?Doesn't that make life a story?"
"I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak."
"Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that."
"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."
"Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away."
"After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life."
"Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a screen, they'd likely text with their last breath."
"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."
"Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality."
"I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone."
"They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop."
"Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs."
"Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down."
"I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."
"Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land."
"Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished."
"After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall."
"Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult."
"The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains."
"Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck."
"I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills."
"Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly."
"Your appearance, attitude, and confidence define you as a person.A professional, well-dressed golfer, like a businessperson, gives the impression that he thinks that the golf course and/or workplace and the people there are important."
"Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it."
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