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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning."
"Just that maybe, maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds."
"I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact."
"Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me."
"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."
"So they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him."
"We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived."
"She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself."
"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."
"And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future."
"To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was."
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."
"I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto."
"I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible."
"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners."
"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped."
"As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions."
"We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it."
"The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products."
"I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could."
"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."
"I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit."
"Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?"
"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."
"I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything."
"Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well."
"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
"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."
"The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs."
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