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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job."
"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."
"I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off."
"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
"I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else."
"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."
"You cannot connect with anyone except through reality."
"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."
"I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing."
"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."
"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
"About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load."
"I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to."
"We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations."
"I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way."
"With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue."
"Everybody is excited to play so I think who plays with whom is a minor thing at this point."
"AIDS is a global problem and there should be a global solution found by the entire international community. It is really scary to see and imagine our world fall into pieces because we refuse to share and put in the common vestiges of our civilizations."
"It's fine to have anal sex as long as you're not in high school."
"So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped."
"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness."
"As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar."
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
"I'm very confident my health isn't going to allow me to be a good player, especially in the spring."
"Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company."
"What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality."
"I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point."
"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
"But the irony: Don't I often want to desperately wriggle free of the confines of a small life? Yet when I stand before immensity that heightens my smallness--I have never felt sadness. Only burgeoning wonder. Is it because within each frame of finite flesh lies the likeness of infinite God? In all things large and spectacular, we recognize glimpses of home and the call to our own deeper chemistry. Do we writhe to peel out of our smallness and into the big life because that fits our inborn God-image?"
"I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company."
"I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure."
"Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada."
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