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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains."
"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."
"Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician."
"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."
"I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating."
"Do not, for one second, allow people with closed minds and no ambition to make a difference in this life silence you or stop you from going above and beyond."
"All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core."
"All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?"
"Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly."
"The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council."
"Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it."
"I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? That I really don't believe? But if I'm grateful to the Bridge Builder for the crossing of a million strong bridges, thankful for a million faithful moments, my life speaks my beliefs and I trust Him again."
"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."
"I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns."
"My bed is the magical place I love to overthink like a PSYCHO."
"I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on."
"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
"The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors."
"I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines."
"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."
"Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others."
"Sometimes my age is inappropriate for my behavior."
"Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is."
"I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order."
"Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work."
"Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you."
"Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo."
"He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant."
"High school is such a shared experience in North American culture."
"Let's sum up... a little house, white and green or to be made so... with trees, preferably birch and spruce... a window looking seaward... on a hill. That sounds very possible... but there is one other requirement. There must be magic about it, Jane... lashings of magic... and magic houses are scarce, even on the Island. Have you any idea at all what I mean, Jane?"Jane reflected."You want to feel that the house is yours before you buy it," she said."Jane," said dad, "you are too good to be true."
"If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! The world NEEDS more of THAT!"
"I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential."
"What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners."
"I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky."
"Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty."
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
"Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs."
"I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears."
"Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience."
"Is the writer a prophet or priest - does he show the truth or serve the truth?..."
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