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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
"Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach."
"You knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on..."
"You are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression..."
"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
"But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood."
"Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road."
"The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it."
"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
"Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done."
"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
"There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical."
"Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag."
"We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians."
"I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God."
"I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future."
"In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader."
"They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other."
"Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways."
"No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government."
"There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image."
"Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything."
"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
"As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings."
"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."
"But a lot of my training can be done in Aston - a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it's good for me because I didn't want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are."
"I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?"
"Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite."
"Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives."
"Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state."
"If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun."
"I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning."
"I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal."
"I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind."
"In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again."
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