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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."
"Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video."
"Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare."
"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."
"I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them."
"Oliver paused for a few seconds, then leaned forward with his elbows braced on his knees, pale hands dangling. "When I was . . . transformed, I thought in the beginning that I could stay with those mortals I loved. It isn't smart. You should understand this by now. We stay apart for a reason."You stay apart so you don't feel guilty for doing what it is you do, I shot back. "I'm not like you. I'll never be like you. Best of all, I don't have to be."
"We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
"We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage."
"I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!"
"As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits."
"I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure."
"I think sometimes negative campaigning, like so much, is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think we'll ever get rid of it."
"We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time."
"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."
"I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent."
"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."
"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft."
"I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job."
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."
"If they had Nautilus on the Concorde, I would work out all the time."
"You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming."
"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."
"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist."
"I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character."
"For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done."
"What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling."
"People always say that digital cameras are much more stable than film cameras, but the truth is that digital cameras, or any kind of digital technology, is one of the most unstable things in the world. A film camera can last decades if you know how to look after it, but digital things can break down instantly. A violent storm, a nuclear bomb, even something as minor as a cracked screen or the releasing of newer models, can make a digital product just a block of useless metal."
"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
"Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other."
"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
"I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!"
"The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies."
"I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot."
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