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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music?"
"One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways."
"Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control."
"Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin."
"Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh."
"I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."
"I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things."
"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."
"I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky."
"Money is just the poor man's credit card."
"I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie."
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
"Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs."
"Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense."
"I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me."
"The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more."
"I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends."
"It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part."
"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."
"The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive."
"Don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?.."
"I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it."
"There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists."
"Whatever it was, she knew she would not be blamed for it, she was blameless. But what use had that been to her in the past, to be blameless? So at the same time she felt guilty, and as if she was about to be punished."
"A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now."
"When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them."
"Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and he'd been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glittering and useful for cutting glass, they shine with reflected light only. They're no use at all in the dark."
"The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one."
"I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together."
"Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes."
"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."
"Love is a connection with another person, either through birth or through something else that I cannot even explain. It is often just an attraction at first. But it goes far deeper than that. It is a determination to care for the other person no matter what and to allow oneself to be cared for in return. It is a commitment to make the other happy and to be happy oneself. It is not possessive, but neither is it a victim. And it does not always bring happiness. Often it brings a great deal of pain, especially when the beloved is suffering and one feels impotent to comfort. It is what life is all about. It is openness and trust and vulnerability."
"Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement."
"People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me."
"Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain."
"I don't care who you love, what you believe, how you look, where you're from or what you do. If you are a good hearted person, you're good in my books!"
"But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning."
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