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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous."
"When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times."
"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."
"How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?"
"Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world."
"We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience."
"Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war."
"And we know Bruce Campbell from way back, so that was a lot of fun."
"Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them."
"I only want people around me who can do the impossible."
"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council."
"Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe."
"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today."
"So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around."
"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart."
"There was tremendous emotion. Every shift was so emotional."
"When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person."
"Making the tax cuts permanent will continue to grow the economy, create jobs, and put more money in the pockets of the hard-working families of Pennsylvania."
"I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me."
"Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities."
"When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them."
"I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful."
"Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality."
"These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level."
"But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral."
"Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs."
"I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions."
"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"
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