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Quotes by Canadian Authors
"I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character."
"Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking."
"The happiest people are the ones who can build a firm foundation of awesomeness out of the stones people have thrown at them."
"There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders."
"I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing."
"Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried."
"Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone."
"People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh."
"Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved."
"Some would suggest that there has been a dramatic change in our perception of the world and ourselves within the world. Others have observed that there has been an almost complete about-face in a relatively short span of time."
"Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve."
"Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record."
"I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor."
"You can't NOT cross the street because you might get hit by a car."
"Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading."
"I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming."
"Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent."
"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them."
"You're still here. No beer. I'm not corrupting a minor." a minor," she pointed out. "At least for beer.""Yeah, and by the way, how much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and I'm not if I want a beer?"
"Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having."
"To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first."
"It is spectacular. From about five minutes in, when we knew for sure that we were going to have the weather to go, the smile on my face just got bigger and bigger, and I was just beaming through the whole launch. I mean, it is just an amazing ride."
"You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself."
"Erotica is pornography I am willing to publicly admit I like."
"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."
"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
"I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook."
"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."
"My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied."
"Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want."
"You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package."
"That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies."
"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."
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