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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency. Look-my feet don't hit the marble! Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising, I hover six inches in the air in my blazing swan-egg of light. You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn."
"The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction."
"People say that a time machine can't be invented, but they've already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world's first time machines."
"The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our economy, and protect our Nation for at least another 150 years if we continue to use it."
"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."
"I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is."
"Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here."
"When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully."
"Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg."
"People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no."
"But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams."
"I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent."
"How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?"
"Life is simple. It is meant to be lived. Don't over-complicate things. Don't lose your life in the things that don't matter."
"It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves."
"If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will."
"I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy."
"Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying."
"One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways."
"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."
"To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma."
"I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture."
"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."
"We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year."
"I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around."
"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."
"The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five."
"The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience."
"You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real."
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