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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive."
"Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You suffer from siderodromophobia. Having misgivings about your mother-in-law is pentheraphobia, and being petrified of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia. And then there's Franklin Delano Roosevelt's affliction, the fear of fear itself, or phobophobia."
"All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children."
"The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors."
"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."
"I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts."
"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."
"Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity."
"Capitalism has a way of letting people view the world through rose-coloured glasses."
"Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong."
"I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever."
"Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying."
"They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that."
"I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working."
"I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture."
"Think in terms of opportunities and solutions instead of problems, disappointment, and failure."
"Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage."
"Life's best coaches are those who believe in you and your potential, sometimes even before you do."
"If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! The world NEEDS more of THAT!"
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
"The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf."
"It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890."
"You are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression..."
"If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important."
"Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it."
"I look out at the world through your transparent face..."
"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
"Every woman has the right to be beautiful."
"Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road."
"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."
"After 13 years, I couldn't accept to be number two."
"Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks."
"I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately."
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