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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."
"Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?"
"I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog."
"A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics."
"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
"The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being."
"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest."
"People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all."
"We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other."
"I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life."
"Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things."
"The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me."
"I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true."
"I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it."
"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
"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."
"Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts."
"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family."
"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"
"That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight."
"A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead."
"It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former."
"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
"I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive."
"I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it."
"You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy."
"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
"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.'"
"You are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me..."
"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."
"Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality."
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