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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one."
"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."
"Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable..."
"The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming."
"There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate."
"Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway."
"Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?"
"The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like."
"The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science."
"Anytime you play a finalist it's going to be a challenge."
"I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption."
"So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness."
"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."
"Life is a purposeful action."
"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."
"When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it."
"When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do.It becomes you. Greatness becomes you."
"I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at."
"I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do."
"Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood."
"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."
"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare."
"I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression."
"Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol."
"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."
"You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie."
"Hate destroys EVERYTHING except itself. Everything. Including you."
"My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals."
"Statism is an unnatural disaster."
"In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas."
"If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed."
"We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it."
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