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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary."
"I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies."
"To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic."
"I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else."
"I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going."
"And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love."
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
"It's certainly TOUGH being AWESOME all the time, but I do it so the kids have someone to look up to!"
"The president of General Motors was in a foul humor."
"I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."
"This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge."
"I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles."
"The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat."
"I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days."
"The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff."
"Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives."
"To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions."
"I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal."
"And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again."
"If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking."
"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"
"Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government."
"We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things."
"It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again."
"Roseanne was incredible to work with. She was extremely bright."
"Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it."
"When it costs $50 to fill up our gas tanks, it impacts every aspect of our daily lives and the community."
"The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on."
"All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get."
"Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way."
"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. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies."
"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity."
"When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out."
"Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up."
"Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam."
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