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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do."
"My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology."
"The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop."
"I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people."
"I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless."
"Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time."
"In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke."
"We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
"I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!"
"I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through."
"Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature."
"...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world."
"I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot."
"I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!"
"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down."
"It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with."
"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."
"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual."
"The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease."
"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up."
"What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world."
"I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now."
"I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it."
"The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals."
"I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing."
"Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road."
"As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence."
"I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost."
"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare."
"I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well."
"My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?"
"Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening."
"Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well."
"There are days when I can hardly make it out of bed. I find it an effort to speak. I measure progress in steps, the next one and the next one, as far as the bathroom. These steps are major accomplishments. I focus on taking the cap off the toothpaste, getting the brush up to my mouth. I have difficulty lifting my arm to do even that. I feel I am without worth, that nothing I can do is of any value, least of all to myself."
"Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes."
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