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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Mrs Lynde says, "Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed."
"That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs."
"Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles."
"So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what."
"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."
"I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost."
"Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing."
"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel."
"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."
"The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you."
"Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian."
"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."
"The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war."
"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
"Why is it these days that so many people hate reading? Some people won't even touch a newspaper or magazine. It isn't television that kills reading, or cinema or radio, or even those accursed little things known as video games. People used to read all the time, but when the century shifted subtly, somewhere along the way, people forgot how to imagine. When did it happen? At what point? Who or what is to blame? Maybe it's just because the world has become so cold and scientific and shallow in recent years."
"I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years."
"The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little."
"My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game."
"We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We're prepared to lose some money along the way. Eventually we're going to need some help."
"I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong."
"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates."
"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."
"Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything."
"The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being."
"They have had three years to get a resolution and they failed. Both of these guys have failed."
"When trouble comes, it's your family that supports you."
"Well, you're not exactly social, are you, Mandy Valems?"Oh yeah, sure, because I'm just surrounded by genius to be social with in this day and age, Mandy replied with razor-sharp sarcasm. "Hey, I don't need anyone else! I've got you, you're my friend, and you'll be with me forever!" 'You won't be with me forever, though' said Alecto cynically. "I'm like a spider's web; anyone who is friends with me gets dragged into my troubles and eventually dies."Poetic, dear friend, Mandy sighed, shaking her head. "Morbid, but poetic."
"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."
"The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago."
"Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do."
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