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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"We went through all the scenes and they became kind of funny and they expanded a little bit and because it seemed to be working so well in the movie, they added a couple of things later on in the movie and that's how it turned out."
"The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman."
"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
"Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent."
"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks."
"I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it."
"I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional."
"Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"
"The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression."
"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."
"Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal."
"That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are."
"Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error."
"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down."
"We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror."
"We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time."
"Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic."
"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."
“Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground.
‘It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it?’ she asked.
‘Oh, not really,’ said Alecto, his eyes lifeless, his voice listless. ‘I’m going to be forgotten by someone who I can’t forget, though. That will be terrible—but maybe it’s better if she does forget me altogether.’”
"That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain."
"We're either going to save Ihe world or no one will be saved."
"There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit."
"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."
"The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become."
"Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older."
"It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing."
"Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy."
"I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person."
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."
"You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan."
"Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations."
"The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals."
"Darren McCarty is a big video game guy, and he brings his systems with him on the road."
"My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball."
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