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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't."
"Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves."
"When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community."
"Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on."
"I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women."
"We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'"
"On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction."
"Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids."
"Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love."
"Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others-and I am one of those-never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go."
"I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past."
"We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough."
"Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today."
"I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor."
"He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven-at least in this life-was neither a time nor a placeto be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again toleave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears.Very much on the verge of tears.And very frightened."
"Becoming limitless involves mental agility, the ability to quickly grasp and incorporate new ideas and concepts with confidence."
"I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers."
"His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea."
"I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based."
"If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick."
"I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it."
"I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope."
"We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice."
"You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living."
"A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview."
"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
"One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled."
"She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors."
"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life."
"My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music."
"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."
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