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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget."
"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
"To know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits."
"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
"You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at."
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."
"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost."
"The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke."
"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?"
"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."
"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."
"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."
"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
"I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching."
"I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting."
"I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible."
"I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way."
"I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous."
"As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions."
"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."
"Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep."
"I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible."
"We're not very accepting of people who act strangely."
"The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet."
"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."
"The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues."
"Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it."
"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."
"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down."
"The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago."
"They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly."
"I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing."
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