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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
"I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience."
"The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public."
"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."
"I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music."
"Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway."
"We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!"
"I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences."
"It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do."
"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."
"When someone tells you they've just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they're locked into jobs they hate; that they're broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they're fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It's profoundly depressing."
"I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing."
"I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy."
"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
"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."
"I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra couple years of life that was necessary to get us to syndication."
"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."
"Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that."
"The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs."
"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."
"When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week."
"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
"I don't think there will be another Ghostbusters. I think we're all too old to do it. I think we've done it a couple times and there is not that much to get out of it, to do that would be fresh in it."
"I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real."
"Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do."
"That's why it's called Sebastian Bach. I mean, it's a permanent band, pretty much, but if I jam with other people, it just makes a better album, I think."
"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
"When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves."
"Man cannot live by incompetence alone."
"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit."
"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."
"The Iraqi people are living better lives now than three year ago, no longer living in fear."
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