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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones."
"The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it."
"It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us."
"Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?"
"With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature, Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. "I didn't create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren't many of them left these days but they're still very dangerous! They're here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don't understand the world of Representations."
"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing."
"I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress."
"I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things."
"We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know."
"The thing is, playing with us, whoever was the left winger had to come to play every night because that's the way it was. Charlie came in and he just fit that role - big and strong around the net."
"I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God."
"In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader."
"He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played."
"At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada."
"One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge."
"Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories."
"I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking."
"I really think about the times that I've been through with my husband and all the stuff that we've been through together, and I think to those moments for inspiration for the role."
"We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know."
"I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that."
"Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?"
"Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite."
"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."
"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."
"As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody."
"When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss."
"I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla.'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.''And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla."
"If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort."
"Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle."
"And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek."
"I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon..."
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