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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen everyday. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen."
"The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity."
"I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers."
"But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been."
"I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing."
"I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me."
"One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep."
"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."
"I see you from afar-fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift."
"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?"
"Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims."
"Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were."
"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?"
"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."
"I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility."
"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
"The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems."
"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."
"Both songs are really, really intense when it comes to performing them, and very draining at the same time."
"After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital."
"The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential."
"On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government."
"I've got money so I'm a Conservative."
"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."
"At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well."
"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."
"When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things."
"Trying to force creativity is never good."
"In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle."
"The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer."
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