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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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."
"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities."
"People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all."
"In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward."
"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."
"I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century."
"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
"I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it."
"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
"So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue."
"It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care."
"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family."
"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."
"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level."
"Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities."
"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."
"There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language."
"I never thought anything like that would have gone on."
"Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised."
"You are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me..."
"There are Americans will find it difficult to believe that the Prime Minister can simply impose candidates on ridings, and can so efficiently move individuals out of private life and into the Cabinet with virtually no resort to the electorate."
"It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war."
"The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science."
"The country has been of better character since leaving the Buttes than E. of them, but has now a very fertile appearance. This may be said to begin about the 3rd crossing of Milk R of the line."
"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."
"I don't think about what other people want from me."
"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."
"There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general."
"Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted."
"How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice?"
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