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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?"
"I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous."
"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
"Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people."
"And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1."
"This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on."
"If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me."
"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper."
"Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian."
"I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that."
"I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could."
"If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?"
"If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside."
"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."
"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."
"They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer."
"If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression."
"Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains."
"Most shows, you really have to force it. And everybody's nervous, and the network is nervous, and they've all got their notepads out, and they're all going to give notes on what they think is funny, and everybody's trying to spin their jokes, and this was so - the script was so good that we didn't have to really do anything, and it made it so easy for us to do well."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."
"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did."
"Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise."
"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase."
"It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it."
"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."
"I think we're quite unique in that we do have our own sound and approach and we don't really care what's going on elsewhere... we've never wanted to be part of another trend or movement."
"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic."
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