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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before."
"The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment."
"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."
"Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life."
"Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited."
"An atheist who is a statist is just another theist."
"They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable."
"Sure, she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. "What could go wrong?Michael's eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, she said."
"You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth you can find in it, and if you are really lucky, a terrific partner and I have that and those four things worked out for me."
"I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of necessity. I would be in the direst of dire straits, facing a bleak future, when some small thing, some detail, would transform itself and appear in my mind in a new light. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again. How true it is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true."
"All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support."
"This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion."
"You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart."
"Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy."
"It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction."
"Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done."
"What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation."
"And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic."
"Sons branch out but one woman leads to another."
"There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention."
"Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience."
"If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized."
"Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?"
"I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world."
"I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify."
"Believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't."
"In order to accept yourself, you must first have some sense of who you are."
"You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected."
"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"
"If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book."
"Enjoy things for what they are, when they are, in the moment."
"To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken."
"I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me."
"All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range."
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