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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work."
"Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo."
"Government cannot and must not replace private initiative."
"But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers."
"In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction."
"Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people."
"That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on."
"The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land."
"A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times."
"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
"And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through."
"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
"Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were."
"I've got money so I'm a Conservative."
"We are a society of excuses, shame and blame; we avoid accountability and often project our responsibility when involving domestic violence."
"In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute."
"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."
"People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged."
"When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win."
"Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences."
"You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping."
"Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free."
"Fatherhood is the greatest education a man can ever receive."
"You can't take anything in life WAY too seriously...Even the serious stuff!"
"People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no."
"As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve."
"The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant."
"But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer."
"If you look at the world with eyes that wish to learn, you will see lessons everywhere."
"I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction."
"If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible."
"Life isn't always easy. I struggle day to day. But I choose to live life to the fullest and keep reminding myself that I am stronger than ANYTHING that stands in my way."
"Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard."
"I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other."
"I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to."
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