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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin."
"I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working."
"If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it."
"Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that."
"I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things."
"There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off."
"How are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words..."
"Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense."
"While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving."
"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."
"I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender."
"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?.."
"The expression of preferences is the essence of love."
"The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer."
"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."
"Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation."
"Why do we say razzle-dazzle instead of dazzle-razzle? Why super-duper, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, hocus-pocus, willy-nilly, hully-gully, roly-poly, holy moly, herky-jerky, walkie-talkie, namby-pamby, mumbo-jumbo, loosey-goosey, wing-ding, wham-bam, hobnob, razza-matazz, and rub-a-dub-dub? I thought you'd never ask. Consonants differ in "obstruency"-the degree to which they impede the flow of air, ranging from merely making it resonate, to forcing it noisily past an obstruction, to stopping it up altogether. The word beginning with the less obstruent consonant always comes before the word beginning with the more obstruent consonant. Why ask why?"
"Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to."
"Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain."
"My writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on..."
"I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now."
"I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology-that progress comes through class struggle, often violent. It led to the widespread belief that the only way to achieve justice was to hurry this dialectical process along, and allow the oppressed working classes to carry out their struggle against their bourgeois oppressors."
"Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."
"Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space."
"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!"
"As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal."
"The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me."
"I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby."
"In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ."
"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."
"Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law."
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