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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"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 human mind and body are truly extraordinary. They are the quintessence of excellence in motion. We talk, touch, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel. We dream, aspire, and become. All that we are is mind and body and spirit-that is our universe."
"Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people."
"Applying parents values back to them allot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter with his own counterfeit bills. "No, your supposed to think this is real money. I know it's not. I'm only pretending this is real money to get away with something. I don't actually want to receive it because I know it's fake money."
"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video."
"There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life."
"There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences."
"I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec."
"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."
"I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating."
"I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach."
"My bed is the magical place I love to overthink like a PSYCHO."
"Visualization engages the mind and encourages the body."
"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."
"I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy."
"India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship."
"I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part."
"As a people, we know what we can do, we know how to do it, and we just want to get on with it. How? By ensuring that Canada's place in the world is one of influence and pride."
"The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned."
"We use intimacy to refer to the physical when it really pertains to the spiritual .."
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
"But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood."
"There are some women who seem to be born without fear just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. ... Providence appears to protect such women maybe out of astonishment."
"We all have our things that we would rather live without. It's how we live with them when we have no choice that makes us or breaks us."
"Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the jungle in the form of a bird so she would not be too frightened or lonely."
"Live in the present, but live for the future."
"Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time."
"I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border."
"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."
"I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows."
"Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough."
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