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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment."
"It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa."
"Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own."
"Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all."
"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down."
"To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination."
"I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense."
"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did."
"The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear."
"If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money."
"I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor."
"Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war."
"I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one."
"Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am."
"When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry."
"Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable..."
"My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'"
"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons."
"I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity."
"I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes."
"I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck."
"I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on."
"Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job; it would let me go around the world."
"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?"
"We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility."
"That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find."
"Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups."
"Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights."
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