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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Sometimes LIFE is rough and tough. That's still NO excuse for you to be."
"Walking into a show when I was 16, at that time when it was the No. 1 hit show, and replacing a character comes with so many expectations. I felt a lot of pressure with that."
"There's nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you're alone you can be yourself, but when you're in empty relationships you can't even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it's worse than no friends at all."
"The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies."
"The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery."
"I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series."
"We understand more than we know."
"The more actively engaged you are in the present moment, the more aware you will become of yourself; your actions and reactions. As you become more aware, you will increase your ability to change what it is you do and how."
"I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule."
"I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog."
"Rights" are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes."
"After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall."
"Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult."
"However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas."
"Sometimes it is not easy to find any words that properly convey a thought. When we hear or read, we usually remember the gist, not the exact words, so there has to be such a thing as a gist that is not the same as a bunch of words."
"Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck."
"Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?"
"No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had."
"If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere."
"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input."
"In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons."
"There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable."
"I believe we are the ones who hurt ourselves the most, by how we receive, by how we perceive."
"Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking."
"When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!"
"People who have NO ambition to make a difference in this life should not interrupt the people who DO."
"You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."
"My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work."
"There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent."
"You are ruled by whatever you invest your time, energy and emotions into. Check in with yourself. What is taking up your time and energy? Where is the focus of your emotions? If there are not where you want them to be, course correct. Remember, whatever you give energy to grows. So grow everything good and beneficial that will also help bring you to a better space and frame of mind. Make the best of each day, of each moment. Give time, love and attention to those and that which you love."
"Acknowledging awesomeness is powerful, contagious, important and necessary!"
"There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen."
"The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind."
"I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world."
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