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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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!"
"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
"I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing."
"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."
"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."
"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
"I have become a housewife and there is no better job."
"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
"LET us honour the King by cherishing respectful Sentiments concerning him; speaking of him with Affection, with Esteem and Reverence; and by promoting a like Spirit and Conduct in others."
"Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."
"I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends."
"It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw."
"I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years."
"We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations."
"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord."
"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."
"There is no point trying to figure out who is guilty or not at un-balancing the planet. I think we need to figure out and solve the problems together and not isolate from each other."
"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
"I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off."
"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up."
"As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors."
"My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball."
"As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence."
"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
"I'm never gonna play again, and I know I'm really, really going to miss it."
"And what if you could go back in time and take all those hours of sorrow and insanity and replace them with something better?"
"As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes."
"I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point."
"I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies."
"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!"
"Punctuality is the soul of business."
"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."
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