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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"What we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes."
"I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories."
"Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends."
"As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't."
"These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy."
"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives."
"If you change your way of thinking and being, you will change your way of seeing."
"All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate."
"When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning-human meaning, that is-is defined by them. You have to admit that."
"As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted."
"There are no managers like there used to be managers."
"Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore."
"You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way."
"I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me."
"Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible."
"I think that we had a really loyal, great audience on Tuesdays and we were hoping that with the move, they would come with us. It looks like they have, so things are good and we are going to keep building."
"A secure attachment is the ability to bond, to develop a secure and safe base..."
"Doing shows is always a side of skating that I've loved, it's the performing. I get to do that without the pressure, it's always fun between the skaters and the preparation, the show is always so much fun."
"It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there."
"I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together."
"I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying."
"It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people."
"Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer. And I don't know if I would recognize it if I found it. And the longer I look, the more selfish I grow.For I think only of my own happiness. i think I have lost the ability to make someone else happy. If I ever had it. And I suppose we can never be happy unless we can also give happiness."
"Traumatic experiences in early childhood may interfere with the child's ability to securely attach."
"How much misery . . . how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic in that way: imperfectly monogamous. If we could only pair-bond for life, like gibbons, or else opt for total guilt-free promiscuity, there'd be no more sexual torment. Better plan - make it cyclical and also inevitable, as in the other mammals. You'd never want someone you couldn't have."
"Have you noticed,' she asked him, 'how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?"
"Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development."
"There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters."
"Of course genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life."
"It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care."
"Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress."
"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something."
"I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war."
"I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure."
"Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him."
"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."
"Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it."
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